With reflexive.pron. as object followed by simple complement, †as, or to be: To make oneself appear, put on an appearance of being. †Formerly in…

transitive. To misrepresent (a person or thing); to adulterate; to falsify. reflexive. To show oneself in false colours, to make false pretensions…

To put on (with intent to deceive) the appearance or semblance of; to feign, pretend, simulate. reflexive with infinitive or complement. Obsolete.

transitive (reflexive). reflexive with complement. To pass oneself off as another person. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To cause (a person) to appear as or be accepted for someone else. Chiefly reflexive: to assume a false character or false identity as.

To represent.

colloquial. transitive. reflexive. To pass oneself off as someone else. rare.