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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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323 words match “PERSONA”

Same as Person, n., 8.

PERSONABLE a. 3 definitions

g a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E. Hall.

PERSONAGE n. 3 definitions

f a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person. "In personage stately." Hayward. The damsel well did view his personage. Spenser.

PERSONAL a. 7 definitions

Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. Every man so termed by way of personal difference. Hooker.

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

PERSONALITY n. 3 definitions

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.

PERSONALLY adv. 3 definitions

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.

PERSONALTY n. 2 definitions

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

PERSONATE v. 6 definitions

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.

DISPERSONATE v.

To deprive of personality or individuality. [R.] We multiply; we dispersonate ourselves. Hare.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE n.

The actors in a drama or play.

IMPERSONAL a. 2 definitions

Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality. An almighty but impersonal power, called Fate. Sir J. Stephen. Impersonal verb (Gram.), a verb used with an indeterminate subject, commonly, in English, with the impersonal pronoun it; as, it rains; it snows; methinks (it seems to me). Many verbs which ar…

IMPERSONALITY n.

The quality of being impersonal; want or absence of personality.

IMPERSONALLY adv.

In an impersonal manner.

IMPERSONATE v. 3 definitions

To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.

IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION n.

The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.

IMPERSONATOR n.

One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.