personate

Example Sentences

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"Thomas Rendner will personate the Christ well--there is no danger on that score."

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

The two captives personate each other, and induce Hegio to send home Philocrates, who was a wealthy noble, and keep only the born slave.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

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

By his counsel the god celebrated a sham marriage with a wooden image, dressed up to personate Plataea, daughter of Asopus.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

He was, besides, a ventriloquist, and could thus personate and imitate any character or any voice he chose.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William