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The quality or state of being personal; personality. [R.]

That which constitutes distinction of person; individuality. Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground. Coleridge.

To make personal. "They personalize death." H. Spencer.

In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton.

The state of being a person; personality. [R.]

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.

Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective. Perspective plane, the plane or surface on which the objects are delineated, or the picture drawn; the plane of projection; -- distinguished from the ground plane, which is that on which the objects are represented as standing. When this plane is ob…

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

An instrument for obtaining, and transferring 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.

Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.