personate

Example Sentences

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"Was this sent to you that you might personate the original?"

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.

To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The two captives personate each other, and induce Hegio to send home Philocrates, who was a wealthy noble, and keep only the born slave.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

He was, besides, a ventriloquist, and could thus personate and imitate any character or any voice he chose.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William

So it occurred to General Funston; “Why not personate the reinforcements called for, the American officers to command the expedition assuming the rôle of captured American prisoners?”

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.