| v. t. | 1. | To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. |
| 1. | To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; | |
| 2. | To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. | |
| 3. | To personify; to typify; to describe. | |
| v. i. | 1. | To play or assume a character. |
| a. | 1. | (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. |
| Verb | 1. | personate - pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" Synonyms: impersonate, pose |
| 2. | personate - attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous" Synonyms: personify |
TO PERSONATE, crim. law. The act of assuming the character of another
without lawful authority, and, in such character, doing something to his
prejudice, or to the prejudice of another, without his will or consent.
2. The bare fact of personating another for the purpose of fraud, is no
more than a cheat or misdemeanor at common law, and punishable as such. 2
East, P. C. 1010; 2 Russ. on Cr. 479.
3. By the act of congress of the 30th April, 1790, s. 15, 1 Story's
Laws U. S. 86, it is enacted, that "if any person shall acknowledge, or
procure to be acknowledged in any court of the United States, any
recognizance, bail or judgment, in the name or names of any other person or
persons not privy or consenting to the same, every such person or persons,
on conviction thereof, shall be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars,
or be imprisoned not exceeding seven years, and whipped not exceeding
thirty-nine stripes, Provided nevertheless. that this act shall not extend
to the acknowledgment of any judgment or judgments by any attorney or
attorneys, duly admitted, for any person or persons against whom any such
judgment or judgments shall be bad or given." Vide, generally, 2 John. Cas.
293; 16 Vin. Ab. 336; Com. Dig. Action on the case for a deceit, A 3.