personate

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Children delight to personate animals; and a fine genius could not better employ itself than in inventing a great many more plays, setting them to rhythmical words, describing what is to be done.

From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mann, Mary E.

They were allowed to choose their own diversion, and they fixed that their father and the Grand Duchess should appear as Oberon and Titania, and that every guest should personate some fairy character.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa

Her selfe a while she layes aside, and makes Ready to personate a mortall part.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

His own affection for Hallam seems to personate the object of his attachment, and “sees himself in all he sees.”

From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Gatty, Alfred, Mrs.

But that all-essential one—if we desire to secure the confidence of our contemporaries, and the respect of posterity—of an honest man, I fear he was never able to personate successfully.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)