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/ɪmpˈərsənˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Impersonate v. t. (past & past part. impersonated; pres. part. impersonating)

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

To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify.

To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth. "Benedict impersonated his age."

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Etymology of 'Impersonate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Impersonate" Quotes from Famous Books

... strict confinement in the Tower, where the luckless Warwick had been kept a prisoner for thirteen years. The son of Clarence, still little more than a boy, was the only figure-head left for Yorkist malcontents. Another attempt to impersonate him by a youth named Ralph Wilford was nipped in the bud at the beginning of 1499; but Henry's nerve seems to have been seriously shaken by it, and probably he now began to make up his mind to get ...

— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes

... was actually deceived when we brought the two together, as a test," he went on. "Preston is a genius. He doesn't merely 'make up' to look like someone else; he doesn't, when he is made up, just impersonate the character; for the time he is the man, he 'feels like him,' he says, he shares his views, he becomes his other ego. He has the advantage in this case of knowing Cranmere well, and he has, in consequence, excelled himself to-night. The ...

— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux

... deluge of words? Perfectly self-isolated. She had advanced the imaginary omelette to the last stage of culinary progress; and she was now rehearsing the final operation of turning it over—with the palm of her hand to represent the dish, and the cookery-book to impersonate the frying-pan. "I've got it," said Mrs. Wragge, nodding across the room at Magdalen. "First put the frying-pan on the dish, and then tumble ...

— No Name • Wilkie Collins

... cannot suppose that I would really do Tulliwuddle such injustice as to attempt, in my own feeble manner, to impersonate him?" ...

— Count Bunker • J. Storer Clouston

... the epic poem is even less direct than that which is portrayed in the drama; for there the poet does not impersonate the agents in the story, but describes them. His description is the first thing which we get; we get the action only indirectly through that. Hence the story-teller himself—his manner of telling, his reactions to what he tells, his ...

— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker

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