In botany, mask-like; having the lower lip pushed upward so as to close the hiatus between the two lips, as in the snapdragon: said of a gamopetalous irregular corolla.

In zoöl., masked or disguised in any way.

Same as personated.

To assume or put on the character or appearance of; play the part of; pass one's self off as.

To assume; put on; perform; play.

To represent falsely or hypocritically; pretend: with a reflexive pronoun.

To represent by way of similitude; typify.

To describe; characterize; celebrate.

To play a fictitious character.

transitive verb. To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

transitive verb. To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign

transitive verb. To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.

transitive verb. To personify; to typify; to describe.

adjective. 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.

intransitive verb. To play or assume a character.

verb. to fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate

verb. to portray a character (as in a play); to act

verb. to attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify

adjective. 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.

verb. attribute human qualities to something

verb. pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions

"The listeners were deprived of seeing and hearing Ben Rogers "personate""