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Definition of Personating
1. personate [v] - See also: personate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personating
Literary usage of Personating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"With respect to the personating others in courts of justice, and acknowledging bail,
... personating a Proprietor of Stock in the Public Funds. t Sgct. 1. ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings by Joseph Chitty, Richard Peters (1819)
"The Offence of false personating, which is punishable under se* Offence: ...
So that at the present day, the simple offence of personating another with ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1889)
"Money or property may be obtained by falsely personating the owner under such
circumstances as to constitute the crime of larceny. Thus, where property left ..."
4. The Art of Acting and Public Reading: Dramatic Interpretation by Rollo Anson Tallcott (1922)
"personating is the most literal and least suggestive form of reading. ...
When personating the reader may walk about the platform, assuming the gait and ..."
5. The Art of Acting and Public Reading: Dramatic Interpretation by Rollo Anson Tallcott (1922)
"personating is the most literal and least suggestive form of reading. ...
When personating the reader may walk about the platform, assuming the gait and ..."
6. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown by Edward Hyde East (1806)
"As to what amounts to an endeavour to receive, &c. by y %• false personating
under these acts. *%£££ Francis Parr was indicted on the stat. 31 Geo. 2. c. ..."
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