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▪ I. impersonate, v.|ɪmˈpɜːsəneɪt|
[f. L. type *impersonāre, f. im- (im-1) + persōna person: cf. incorporāre to incorporate.]
†1. trans. To invest with an actual personality; to embody. Obs.
1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 181 This soule of mine impersonated anew, and so inanimating my body againe.
2. To invest with a supposed personality; to represent in a personal or bodily form; to personify.
1624Bedell Lett. iii. 51 The rich man being in hell torments (in whose wordes I doubt not but our Sauiour doth impersonate and represent the conceits of many men liuing in this world). 1755Warburton View Bolingbroke's Philos. iii. Wks. 1811 XII. 203 That the Jews and Christians, as well as the Heathens, impersonated Chance under the name of Fortune. 1883Contemp. Rev. Dec. 871 The conscience of the community is impersonated in its Government.
b. To manifest or embody in one's own person; to typify.
1855Milman Lat. Chr. iii. vi. (1864) II. 81 His age acknowledged Benedict as the perfect type of the highest religion and Benedict impersonated his age. 1863Kinglake Crimea II. 1 [St. Arnaud] impersonated with singular exactness the idea which our forefathers had in their minds when they spoke of what they called ‘a Frenchman’. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. I. ii. 27 His position was dignified and important, as impersonating the unity of the race.
3. To assume the person or character of; to play the part of; to act (a character); to personate.
1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 185 The Master and Disciple of the Dialogues often think fit..to impersonate other more surprizing Actors. 1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. x. 257 None but persons of imagination and quick feeling should presume to impersonate any of his characters.
Hence imˈpersonated ppl. a. = next.
a1790T. Warton (Mason), The impersonated vices and virtues. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer xiii. 153 Of the impersonated Unseen no poet has made such effective employment.
▪ II. impersonate, ppl. a.|ɪmˈpɜːsənət|
[Short for impersonated, on analogy of other ppl. adjs. in -ate, -ated: see -ate2.]
Embodied in a person; invested with personality; impersonated.
1820Keats Isabella l, If Love impersonate was ever dead. 1834Ld. Houghton Mem. Many Scenes, Spartans at Thermopylæ (1844) 51 Heroic Dignity, impersonate In awful phantoms. a1867J. Hamilton Moses iv. (1870) 68 We expect to find..the Sacred Scribe his own volume impersonate and alive. |