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▪ I. personage|ˈpɜːsənɪdʒ|
[a. OF. personage, -ounage (13th c. in Godef.), mod.F. personnage = Pr. personatge, It. personaggio, med.L. persōnāticum (1057 in Du Cange), -āgium, deriv. of persōna person: see -age.]
†1. A representation or figure of a person; an image or effigy; a statue or portrait. Obs.
1483in Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) I. 6 There was a personage like to the symilitude of the king in habet royall crowned with the crown oon his hede. 1588Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 186 The gate was wrought of masons warke of stone..full of figures or personages. 1601Holland Pliny vii. xxxviii, Alexander streightly forbad..That no man should draw his pourtrait in colours but Apelles the painter: that none should engraue his personage but Pyrgoteles the grauer. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies v. xxix. 420 Upon this litter they set the personage of the idoll, appoynted for the feast. 1607–12Bacon Ess., Beauty (Arb.) 210 Apelles, or Albert Durere,..Whereof the one would make a Parsonage by Geometricall proporcions, the other, by takeing the best partes out of divers faces to make one excellent.
†2. The body of a person; chiefly with reference to appearance, stature, etc.; bodily frame, figure; personal appearance: = person n. 4. (In quot. 1785 humorously for the ‘person’ or ‘body’.) Obs.
1461Rolls of Parlt. V. 463/1 The beaute of personage that it hath pleased Almyghty God to send You. c1559R. Hall Life Fisher in Fisher's Wks. (E.E.T.S.) II. p. lxiij, Doctor Ridley (who was a man of verie little and small personage). 1606L. Bryskett Civ. Life 32 Well borne, vertuous, chaste, of tall and comely personage, and well spoken. 1680Morden Geog. Rect. (1685) 344 The Armenians are..of comely Personage. 1701C. Wolley Jrnl. New York (1860) 57 Of a Gentile Personage, and a very agreeable behaviour in conversation. 1785Cowper Let. to Lady Hesketh 20–24 Dec., Half a dozen flannel waistcoats..to be worn..next my personage.
fig.1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 103 His stile addeth fauour, and grace to beauty; and in a goodly Boddy representeth a puissant Soule. How few verses carry such a personage of state?
†b. A person of (such and such a) figure or appearance: = person n. 4 b. Obs.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 594 Hee being a tall and hardie personage. 1653Holcroft Procopius, Goth. Wars iii. 75 He was a beautifull personage, tall, and of the goodliest countenance that could be seen. 1706Phillips, Personage, the same with Person; as She was a comely Personage. 1807Wordsw. Wh. Doe iii. 145 The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly Personage.
3. A person (man or woman) of high rank, distinction, consideration, or importance; a person of note. (Originally always with great or the like qualification, which in the 19th c. began to be implied in calling any one ‘a personage’.)
1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 25 Preamble, Honorable personages to have joint..power with the seid persones rehersed. 1532Sir J. Russell in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 301 As for the greate personages that be taken..none of them shalbe as yet put to no raunsome. 1654Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Warrs Flanders 42 The Councel of Spain was then full of many eminent personages. 1683Brit. Spec. 268 Her Majesty, is a Personage endowed with rare Perfections both of Mind and Body. 1812Ld. Milton Sp. Ho. Com. 1 Dec., The Great Personage at the Head of the Government. 1845Disraeli Sybil vii, Sir John Warren bought another estate, and picked up another borough. He was fast becoming a personage. 1893F. F. Moore I Forbid Banns (1899) 120 Lady Ashenthorpe was a Personage. That she had become a Personage, proved that she possessed a large amount of tact.
b. In weakened or generalized sense: A person; a man or woman (whose status the speaker does not know, or does not desire to specify).
Sometimes applied ironically or laughingly to a self-important person, who considers himself ‘a personage’; also with mixture of other senses.
a1555Bradford Let. to Lady Vane in Foxe A. & M. (1583) 1648 Many whiche were in comparison of Peter, but rascall personages. 1668Lloyd (title) Memoires of the Lives..of those Personages who Suffered for the Protestant Religion. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xxx, The personage whom we had long entertained as a harmless amusing companion. 1786A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscr. II. 56 The Seraphic Miss Franklin, was, in his present opinion, a very disgusting personage. 1818R. Sharp Lett. & Ess. (1834) 54 Your shrewd, sly, evil-speaking fellow is generally a shallow personage. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such ii. 28 No impassioned personage wishes he had been born in the age of Pitt. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 215 That ready-witted and helpful personage.
†4. The quality of being a person or persons; personality. Obs. rare.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 198 b, For here is no consubstancialite nor personage, whiche is in y⊇ deite.
†5. Personal identity, personality, individual self. our personages, ourselves. Obs.
1531Elyot Gov. iii. xxv, Any thinge wherby our wittes may be amended and our personages be more apte to serue our publike weale. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 179 Acts of his personage and not of ours.
†6. The sort of person any one is, or is represented to be, in respect of character, rank, etc. Obs.
1534Whitinton Tullyes Offices i. (1540) 43 Poetes iudge comly what soeu[e]r becometh a man by his personage. 1560Cole Lett. to Jewell ii, The greater personage you beare, the lesse cause haue ye to be put to answer. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 242 Instruments wherewt he obteined estimation, and wonne worship conuenient for his proper personage. 1598Barret Theor. Warres iv. iv. 115 Many good parts ought to be in the parsonage of a Sergeant Maior.
7. One of the persons or characters of a drama (dramatis personæ), or of a dramatic poem, story, etc.; also one of the actors on the stage of history.
1573in Cunningham Acc. Revels Crt. (Shaks. Soc. 1842) 32, Patternes for personages of Men & Women in strange attyer. 1579E. K. in Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Ep. to Harvey §1 His [Spenser's] dewe obseruing of Decorum everye where, in personages, in seasons, in matter, in speach. 1594in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 33 There being in that Tragœdie sondry personages of greatest astate, to be represented in auncient princely attire. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 156 ⁋6 Only three speaking personages should appear at once upon the stage. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. Pref. 7 The motives of the personages are sometimes as apparent as their actions. 1862Trollope Orley F. xix, I intend that Madeline Staveley shall..be the most interesting personage in this story.
b. Hence, the impersonation or acting of such a character, the part (acted); in the phrases, to take upon oneself, put on, play, assume the personage of; also fig. and transf., in to represent the personage of.
1559Mirr. Mag. (1563) B ij, I will take upon me the personage of the last,..full of woundes, miserably mangled, with a pale countenaunce, and grisly looke. 1582Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elem. Pref., Her Majestie representeth the personage of the hole land. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 37 You have hitherto represented the personage of one, whom you are not. 1641Ld. J. Digby Sp. in Ho. Com. 21 Apr. 3 Judges wee are now, and must put on another personage. 1651tr. De-las-Coveras' Don Fenise 78 Every one of us played so well his personage in this Comedy. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne i. xix. (1877) I. 75 Whatsoever personage a man takes upon himself to perform, he ever mixes his own part with it. 1901Pall Mall G. 27 Feb. 6/1 It is common for tragedians to shut themselves up in their dressing-rooms between the acts of a play, and to reassume their personage immediately on being called.
†c. Assumed or pretended character; acting; semblance. Obs.
1572tr. Buchanan's Detect. Q. Mary M iv, At Setons sche threw away all hir disguisit personage of mourning.
8. Phrases. † in one's own personage, in person (person 10), personally (obs.). in the personage of,
†a. in the character of, as representing (obs.);
b. as represented by; personified in; = in the person of (person 12 a, b).
1534Cranmer Misc. Writ. (Parker Soc.) II. 291 In case I had so spoken the same unto you in my own personage. Ibid. 294 To examine in your own personage the said misdoers. 1553Kennedy Compend. Tract. in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844) 153 Spekying unto his Apostolis in the personage of the rest of the ministeris of the Kirk of God. 1888J. Payn Prince of Blood I. i. 30 ‘Circumstances over which she had no control’, in the personage of her brother Ernest, were impelling her.
▪ II. personage
obs. form of parsonage. |