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personate

[pur-suh-neyt] / ˈpɜr səˌneɪt /










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I forgot myself, and told her that Johnny had hired a man to personate a parson, and that she was not married at all.

From Out of a Labyrinth by Lynch, Lawrence L.

To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

He personate bad Envy; yet say so, He lickt at Homer's mouth, not from below.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

Corolla personate, the palate on the lower lip projecting, often closing the throat; upper lip erect.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

"Was this sent to you that you might personate the original?"

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.




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