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"personate" Definitions
  1. IMPERSONATE, REPRESENT
  2. to assume without authority and with fraudulent intent (some character or capacity)
  3. to invest with personality or personal characteristics

19 Sentences With "personate"

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His plan, therefore, was to kill him, and then personate him.
I accompanied Linton to Limerick at his request, dressed to personate you.
It was his own idea to personate you, and the risk is his own.
He may personate me long enough to kill my father and rifle his hoards.
We fixed upon Pierce to personate the ghost because he was tall and lanky.
That once known to you, his fellow twin could never personate him and deceive you.
It needed freedom, and the absence of any urgency, to enable him to personate a gentleman.
You have been brought there to personate someone, and the real person is imprisoned in this chamber.
At that moment he was less like himself than was the impostor who came there to personate him.
Wyatt had engaged passage for his wife, it became necessary that some person should personate her during the voyage.
The genus is morphologically diverse, particularly the New World group (Saerorhinum). The genus is characterized by personate flowers with an inferior gibbous corolla.
It had been agreed that, in their escape, she was to personate the character of a Creole lady, and Emmeline that of her servant.
He is to aid me in the onslaught, and he and his followers will personate the outlaws, from whom my valorous arm is, after changing my garb, to rescue the lady.
""The Red Rose" Lafayette Advertiser (March 7, 1913): 2. via Newspapers.com She said of her own appearance, "I'm dark, therefore I'm sinister. I've always wanted to play schoolgirl roles, wear frilly frocks and act innocently, but when a manager sets eyes on me he has in mind some particularly wicked woman for me to personate.
He is granted a reprieve, and goes in search of Amis, who engages to personate him in the combat. He thus saves his friend, but in so doing perjures himself. Then follows the leprosy of Amis, and, after a lapse of years, his discovery of Amiles and cure. There are obvious reminiscences in this story of Damon and Pythias, and of the classical instances of sacrifice at the divine command.
Forrest visited London a second time in 1845, accompanied by his wife, who was welcomed in the intellectual circles of English and Scottish society. He acted at the Princess's Theatre in London. He met with great success in Virginius and other parts, but when he attempted to personate Macbeth, a character unsuited to his physique and style of acting, the performance was hissed by the audience. Forrest attributed the hissing to the professional jealousy and machinations of Macready, although that artist had been kind and helpful to him when he first came before London audiences.
"...the Tui Kanokupolu always took the name of the god. Taliai Tupou, when he was appointed ruler, as he was supposed to personate him." Ma’afu’s father was a former Tui Kanokupolu and therefore would have considered Taliai his kin, but it was Ma’afu’s conquests of the north and western islands from Lakeba, that would greatly extend the domains of later Fijian rulers. In 1865 he concluded a Treaty of Friendship between the Kingdom of Lakeba and the Kingdom of Tonga, and in 1871 he convened a meeting of his chiefs and nominated Ma'afu as leader of the states of Lakeba, Vanua Balavu, and the Moala Islands.
He was also an excellent actor and mimic, able to > personate a King's officer, merchant or countryman, as the exigencies of the > case required. In one of the contemporary pamphlets, there is given what is > most evidently a fictitious account of his youth and early days in which he > is represented as a being a footman for Sir George Acheson of Markethill, > and while in the gentleman's employment practising himself in all the > accounts of roguery. Cosgrave's account seems quite probable when he says – > "Redmond once happened to be at the killing of a gentleman in a quarrel, and > flying for safety, stayed abroad for a long time, still refusing to come to > a trial, till he was outlawed, which put him into his shifts." It is likely > that O'Hanlon fled to France and there joined the Army where he acquired > which he so often turned to good use in his after-career, and also was able > to speak French like a native, Gaelic and English being equally at his > command.
On the death of John de Henley, who was without issue, Sir William acted as feoffee of de Henley's estate, granting the manor of Henley to the Crown, then worn by Edward III (1327–1377).Lysons (1796) Sir William also stood as legal guardian to the last male heir of the de Cahaignes (or Keynes) family, high sheriffs of Dorset and Somerset and lords of Dodford in Northamptonshire, and his sister Wentiliana. Following the death in boyhood of the heir in 1337 and, shortly afterwards, Wentiliana without issue, Sir William used "artful chicaneries" to transfer the estate of Dodford to John Cressy, a grandson of Lettice Ayote, herself great-aunt of the late heir and Wentiliana, instead of to one Alice, in whom "the right of inheritance clearly vested".Cleveland (1889) The "chicaneries" were as follows: > That after the death of Wentiliana, he excited (incited) a woman to present > herself before persons unknown, and personate Elizabeth Keynes, as late > coming from the Holy Land, 'in white clothyn as it were in an estate of > innocencye;' when on discreet examination she was found to be 'a beest > envenymed through the covetye of the said Brantingham.

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