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city states of ancient Chaldea, as Lagash or Shirpurla, who were conceived to be direct representatives of the tutelary god of the place.

tinction from a corporation. -- In person, by one's self; with bodily presence; not by representative. "The king himself in person is set forth." Shak. -- In the person of, in the place of; acting for. Shak.

noun (Gram.), one of the pronouns I, thou, he, she, it, and their plurals. -- Personal representatives (Law), the executors or administrators of a person deceased. -- Personal rights, rights appertaining to the person; as, the rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and private property. -- Personal tithes.…

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.

emption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest. To privilege dishonor in thy name. Shak.

is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present.

immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.

liament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives.

The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath.

or apprehension (something which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative,3. The general capability of knowledge necessarily requires that, besides the power of evoking out of unconsciousness one portion of our retained knowledge in preference to another, we posses the faculty of representi…

A representative. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress.

Implying representation; representative. [R.]

A representative. [Obs.] Swift.

which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2.

A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferrior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister,4.

Faintly representative; hence, typical. From sshadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit. Milton.

originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives.

The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.

or pertaining to a pledge or agreement; responsible. [R.] He is righteous even in that representative and sponsional person he put on. Abp. Leighton.