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

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

The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.

To attribute a human form or personality to. You may see imaginative children every day anthropomorphizing. Lowell.

The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.

The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle. A. Wood.

The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau. [Jocular] Dryden.

A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.

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

The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke. Massinger.

Personality. [R.] Swift.

ception) or in fact; being; essence; existence. Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality. Shairp. Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification. Bentley.

nstruments. -- False personation (Law), the intentional false assumption of the name and personality of another. -- False pretenses (Law), false representations concerning past or present facts and events, for the purpose of defrauding another. -- False rail (Naut.), a thin piece of timber placed on top of the head…

not forget thee. Is. xlix. 15. To forget one's self. (a) To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought. (b) To be entirely unselfish. (c) To be guilty of what is unworthy of one; to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.

he exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith.

The state, personality, or character, of a giant; -- a compellation for a giant. His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen. Milton.

The character or personality of a hero. "Three years of heroship." Cowper.

The character, personality, or office of a hostess. Shak.

To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. [R.] The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.

Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.