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istinction 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.

ronoun (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 tithe…

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.

ies. The latter term, presentative faculty, I use . . . in contrast and correlation to a "representative faculty." Sir W. Hamilton.

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

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

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

arliament). 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.

er, we posses the faculty of representing in consciousness what is thus evoked . . . This representative Faculty is Imagination or Phantasy. Sir. W. Hamilton.

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.

in 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.

s, 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.

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