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Definition of Personates
1. personate [v] - See also: personate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personates
Literary usage of Personates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Criminal Law and Procedure by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1919)
"Man fraudulently personates the woman's husband.—At common law, when a man
fraudulently personates a woman's husband and thereby has carnal knowledge of her ..."
2. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Taken from a View of the Moral Education by Thomas Clarkson (1807)
"... first as it personates the characters of others; secondly, as it professes to
reform vice. j THE Quakers have many reasons to give, why, as a Society of ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Robin Good- fellow, a clown who often personates the devil, to scare his neighbours,
in the old play of Wily Beguiled, speaks thus of his enterprise: Tush! ..."
4. The Life of Charles Lever by William John Fitzpatrick (1879)
"... to Dublin—Studies medicine—A startling resurrection—personates Mr. Cusack to
the class—Pursuit at the hands of the ..."
5. Our Recent Actors: Being Recollections Critical, And, in Many Instances by Westland Marston (1888)
"... the stage—Illustrations of this—His Dramatic Club at the Hay- market—Writer's
visit thereto—A reception at the theatre —He personates a taker's man—His ..."
6. The Prema-Sâgara: Or, Ocean of Love by Kavi Lal, Chaturbhuja Miṣra, kavi Lallū Lālu, Frederic Pincott, Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1897)
"Krishna seduces the cowherds from the worship of Indra—He induces them to worship
the mountain Gobardhan—He personates that ..."
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