Bible Dictionaries
Personate

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe.

(2):

(v. i.) To play or assume a character.

(3):

(v. t.) To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

(4):

(v. t.) To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.

(5):

(v. t.) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.

(6):

(a.) Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Personate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/personate.html. 1828.