Personate /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Personated; p. pr. & vb. n. Personating

1. To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. [Obs.]

   In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous.

1. To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; to impersonate{3}; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.
2. To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. [R.]
3. To personify; to typify; to describe.

1. To play or assume a character.

1. Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon. (Bot.)