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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Impersonated p. pr. & vb. n. Impersonating. ] 1. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Benedict impersonated his age. Milman.

n. One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. opsonatio. ] A catering; a buying of provisions. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Personated p. pr. & vb. n. Personating ] [ L. personare to cry out, LL., to extol. See Person. ] To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In fable, hymn, or song so personating
Their gods ridiculous. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. personatus masked, assumed, fictitious, fr. persona a mask. See Person. ] 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. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. [ R. ] “A personated mate.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To personify; to typify; to describe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To play or assume a character. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. personatus masked. ] (Bot.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another; impersonation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who personates. “The personators of these actions.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. & G. ] 1. (Acoustics) Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything that resounds or resonates; specif.: (a) (Teleg.) An open box for containing a sounder and designed to concentrate and amplify the sound. (b) (Elec.) Any of various apparatus for exhibiting or utilizing the effects of resonance in connection with open circuits, as a device having an oscillating circuit which includes a helix of bare copper wire, a variable number of coils of which can be connected in circuit with a condenser and spark gap excited with an induction coil. It is used to create high-frequency electric brush discharges. (c) (Wireless Teleg.) The antenna system and other high-frequency circuits of a receiving apparatus. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ It., fr. It. & L. sonare to sound. See Sound a noise. ] (Mus.) An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The same general structure prevails in symphonies, instrumental trios, quartets, etc., and even in classical concertos. The sonata form, distinctively, characterizes the quick opening movement, which may have a short, slow introduction; the second, or slow, movement is either in the song or variation form; third comes the playful minuet or the more modern scherzo; then the quick finale in the rondo form. But both form and order are sometimes exceptional. [ 1913 Webster ]