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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Personate \Per"son*ate\, verb (used without an object) To play or assume a character.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Personate \Per"son*ate\, adjective [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Personate \Per"son*ate\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Personate \Per"son*ate\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
personate
verb
1: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: {pose}, {impersonate}]
2: attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous" [syn: {personify}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "personate": act, act a part, act as, act out, adumbrate, ape, body forth, copy, create a role, demonstrate, depict, do, embody, enact, exemplify, figure, foreshadow, illustrate, image, impersonate, incarnate, masquerade as, mime, mimic, mirror, pantomime, pass for, perform, personify, play, play a part, play a role, play opposite, portray, pose as, prefigure, pretend to be, pretypify, project, realize, reflect, represent, shadow, shadow forth, support, sustain a part, take a part, take off
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