| Person |
n. |
A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character. |
| Person |
n. |
The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person. |
| Person |
n. |
A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child. |
| Person |
n. |
A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present. |
| Person |
n. |
A parson; the parish priest. |
| Person |
n. |
Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. |
| Person |
n. |
One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject. |
| Person |
n. |
A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. |
| Person |
v. t. |
To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. |
| Persona |
n. |
Same as Person, n., 8. |
| Personable |
a. |
Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. |
| Personable |
a. |
Enabled to maintain pleas in court. |
| Personable |
a. |
Having capacity to take anything granted. |
| Personae |
pl. |
of Persona |
| Personage |
n. |
Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person. |
| Personage |
n. |
Character assumed or represented. |
| Personage |
n. |
A notable or distinguished person; a conspicious or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall. |
| Personal |
a. |
Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. |
| Personal |
a. |
Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire. |
| Personal |
a. |
Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms. |
| Personal |
a. |
Done in person; without the intervention of another. |
| Personal |
a. |
Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks. |
| Personal |
a. |
Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. |
| Personal |
n. |
A movable; a chattel. |
| Personalism |
n. |
The quality or state of being personal; personality. |
| Personalities |
pl. |
of Personality |
| Personality |
n. |
That which constitutes distinction of person; individuality. |
| Personality |
n. |
Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks; as, indulgence in personalities. |
| Personality |
n. |
That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons. |
| Personalize |
v. t. |
To make personal. |
| Personalized |
imp. & p. p. |
of Personalize |
| Personalizing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Personalize |
| Personally |
adv. |
In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. |
| Personally |
adv. |
With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually; particularly. |
| Personally |
adv. |
With respect to one's individuality; as regards one's self; as, personally I have no feeling in the matter. |
| Personalty |
n. |
The state of being a person; personality. |
| Personalty |
n. |
Personal property, as distinguished from realty or real property. |
| Personate |
v. t. |
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. |
| Personate |
v. t. |
To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion. |
| Personate |
v. t. |
To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. |
| Personate |
v. t. |
To personify; to typify; to describe. |
| Personate |
v. i. |
To play or assume a character. |
| Personate |
a. |
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. |
| Personated |
imp. & p. p. |
of Personate |
| Personating |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Personate |
| Personation |
n. |
The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another. |
| Personator |
n. |
One who personates. |
| Personeity |
n. |
Personality. |
| Personification |
n. |
The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. |
| Personification |
n. |
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands. |
| Personified |
imp. & p. p. |
of Personify |
| Personifier |
n. |
One who personifies. |
| Personify |
v. t. |
To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. |
| Personify |
v. t. |
To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law. |
| Personifying |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Personify |
| Personize |
v. t. |
To personify. |
| Personnel |
n. |
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.;
distinguished from materiel. |
