2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually; particularly.
She bore a mortal hatred to the house of Lancaster, and personally to the king.
Bacon. 3. With respect to one's individuality; as regards one's self; as, personally I have no feeling in the matter.
Personalty
(Per"son*al*ty) n.
1. The state of being a person; personality. [R.]
2. (Law) Personal property, as distinguished from realty or real property.
Personate
(Per"son*ate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Personated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Personating ] [L. personare
to cry out, LL., to extol. See Person.] To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. [Obs.]
In fable, hymn, or song so personating
Their gods ridiculous.
Milton. Personate
(Per"son*ate), v. t. [L. personatus masked, assumed, fictitious, fr. persona a mask. See
Person.]
1. 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. Hammond.
2. To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. [R.] "A personated mate." Milton.
3. To personify; to typify; to describe. Shak.
Personate
(Per"son*ate), v. i. To play or assume a character.
Personate
(Per"son*ate) a. [L. personatus masked.] (Bot.) 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.
Personation
(Per`son*a"tion) n. The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another.
Personator
(Per"son*a`tor) n. One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
Personeity
(Per`son*e"i*ty) n. Personality. [R.] Coleridge.
Personification
(Per*son`i*fi*ca"tion) n. [Cf. F. personnification.]
1. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. C. Knight.
2. (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated,
or endowed with personality; prosopopia; as, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice."
Milton.
Personifier
(Per*son"i*fi`er) n. One who personifies.
Personify
(Per*son"i*fy) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Personified ; p. pr. & vb. n. Personifying ] [Person + -
fy: cf. F. personnifier.]
1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.
The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things.
Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
