Word Meaning

personate definition and meaning

v. t. To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
v. t. To personify; to typify; to describe.
v. i. To play or assume a character.
a. 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.