personate
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To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
The cast of parts has unluckily not been preserved, but it is sufficient for us to know that the lower boys were put into requisition to personate the mutes.
He had as a friend a man who resembled him very closely, and he offered this friend a sum of money if he would go to Melbourne and personate him.
From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph
Her selfe a while she layes aside, and makes Ready to personate a mortall part.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
In the night he fled, accompanied by his wife and child, leaving the tribe in charge of his younger brother Sondaba, who agreed to personate him.
From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
