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To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. [Obs.] In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.

The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another.

One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.

Personality. [R.] Coleridge.

The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. C. Knight.

One who personifies.

To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield.

To personify. [R.] Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.

The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.

Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical. [Obs.] Bacon.

Optically; as through a glass. [R.] You see them perspectively. Shak.

ing to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.

The science or art of delineating objects according to the laws of perspective; the theory of perspective.

Discernible. [Obs.] Herbert.

Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen. -- Per`spi*ca"cious*ly, adv. -- Per`spi*ca"cious*ness, n.

The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment. Sir T. Browne.

Perspicacity. [Obs.]

The act of looking sharply. [Obs.] Bailey.

An optical glass; a telescope. [Obs.] Crashaw.

The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought.