Personate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To play or assume a character.

II. Personate ·vt To celebrate loudly; to Extol; to Praise.

III. Personate ·vt To set forth in an unreal character; to Disguise; to Mask.

IV. Personate ·vt To Personify; to Typify; to Describe.

V. Personate ·adj 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.

VI. Personate ·vt 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.