personagen.

Brit.

/ˈpəːsn̩ɪdʒ/,

/ˈpəːsənɪdʒ/, U.S.

/ˈpərsənɪdʒ/

Forms: late Middle English– personage, 1500s personnage, 1500s personnaige, 1500s–1600s parsonage; Scottish pre-1700 parsonage, pre-1700 personag, pre-1700 personaig, pre-1700 personege, pre-1700 personnage, pre-1700 personnaige, pre-1700 persounage, pre-1700 1700s– personage; also Irish English (northern) 1900s– parsioniage.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French parsonage.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman parsonage, Anglo-Norman and Middle French personage, Middle French personnage, personnaige (French personnage ) person of consequence (early 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman; compare also other more distantly related early senses s.v. parsonage n.), ecclesiastical dignitary (1250 in Old French), the body of a person (late 13th cent. in Old French), fictional character in a drama (1384), image or statue representing a person (1422), the role a person plays in life (c1500) < personne person n. + -age -age suffix. Compare post-classical Latin personagium image, effigy (1489), acting, dramatic presentation (1486; compare also earlier sense s.v. parsonage n.). Compare also Old Occitan personatge (13th cent.), Catalan personatge (1460), Spanish personaje (13th cent.), Italian personaggio (1483). Compare earlier parsonage n.

a. A person of high rank, distinction, or importance; a person of note. Frequently with modifying word, as great, important, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important

persona1425

personagec1460

colossus1605

satrapon1650

bigwig1772

big man1789

butt-cut1806

tallboy1820

buzz-wig1854

great or high shot1861

celestial1874

pot1880

big stuff1883

importance1886

big wheel1893

mandarin1907

the (also a) big noise1909

hotty1910

big boy1918

biggie1926

hotshot1933

wheel1933

eminence1935

top hat1936

big or great white chief1937

Mr Big1940

big kahuna1966

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [noun]

kingeOE

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lantern1382

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greatc1400

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persona1425

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magnate?a1439

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personagec1460

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honourablec1540

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signor1583

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name1611

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choice spirita1616

illustricity1637

luminary1692

lion1715

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top-sawyer1826

star1829

celebrity1831

notability1832

notoriety1841

mighty1853

tycoon1861

reputation1870

public figure1871

star turn1885

headliner1896

front-pager1899

legend1899

celeb1907

big name1909

big-timer1917

Hall of Famer1948

megastar1969

c1460 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1837) VI. 336 (MED) Our high court of Parlement, to þe which..confluence is not oonly of al maner personages of our obeisaunce but also of many a straunger.

1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 25 Preamble Honorable personages to have joint..power with the seid persones rehersed.

a1601 W. Lambarde Archion (1635) 56 He [sc. the keeper of the Great Seal] is a great personage.

1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 42 The Councel of Spain was then full of many eminent personages.

1683 Britanniæ Speculum 268 Her Majesty, is a Personage endowed with rare Perfections both of Mind and Body.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 17 I made up then to this important personage, without lifting up my eyes.

1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl VI. iv. 158 Delighted to be queen of the company where she might top the great personage.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. vii. 177 Sir John Warren bought another estate, and picked up another borough. He was fast becoming a personage.

1893 F. F. Moore I forbid Banns (1899) 120 Lady Ashenthorpe was a Personage. That she had become a Personage, proved that she possessed a large amount of tact.

1943 J. B. Priestley Daylight on Sat. xxxi. 245 He was one of that select..group of second-string personages for whom the party..had always to provide.

1986 ‘A. Cross’ No Word from Winifred x. 131 As principal of a college, and a scholar renowned in her field, Stanton was a personage.

b. In weakened sense: a person; an individual (without the implication of status or importance).Sometimes used ironically or humorously of a self-important person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > [noun]

hadc900

lifesmaneOE

maneOE

world-maneOE

ghostOE

wyeOE

lifeOE

son of manOE

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deadly?c1450

hec1450

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terrestrial1726

anybody1733

individual1742

character1773

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jig1781

thingy1787

bod1788

curse1790

his nabs1790

article1796

Earthite1814

critter1815

potato1815

personeityc1816

nibs1821

somebody1826

tellurian1828

case1832

tangata1840

prawn1845

nigger1848

nut1856

Snooks1860

mug1865

outfit1867

to deliver the goods1870

hairpin1879

baby1880

possum1894

hot tamale1895

babe1900

jobbie1902

virile1903

cup of tea1908

skin1914

pisser1918

number1919

job1927

apple1928

mush1936

face1944

jong1956

naked ape1965

oke1970

punter1975

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 262 And sa suld the diuersitee of armes mak the knaulage of the diuersitee of persounagis.

1524 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 495 All and sundry personegeis.

a1555 J. Bradford in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) III. 1830 Many which were in comparison of Peter, but rascall personages.

1668 D. Lloyd (title) Memoires of the Lives..of those Personages who Suffered for the Protestant Religion.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xv. 99 The Arrival of two very extraordinary Personages .

1786 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscretions II. 56 The Seraphic Miss Franklin, was, in his present opinion, a very disgusting personage.

1818 R. Sharp Lett. & Ess. (1834) 54 Your shrewd, sly, evil-speaking fellow is generally a shallow personage.

1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such ii. 28 No impassioned personage wishes he had been born in the age of Pitt.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 215 That ready-witted and helpful personage.

1957 L. Durrell Justine ii. 134 It was these very defects of character..which constituted for me the greatest attraction of this weird kinetic personage.

1995 New Yorker 27 Mar. 106/2 An unhappy personage shouts..a series of deliberately dumbed-down phrases.

a. The body of a person, esp. with reference to appearance, stature, etc.; a person's figure; personal appearance. Cf. person n. 4a. Also figurative. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > [noun] > with regard to appearance

form1297

personc1390

personage1461

moul1565

mould1580

shape1602

flesha1616

habit1652

figure1717

the world > life > the body > [noun]

lichamc888

bodyeOE

earthOE

lichOE

bone houseOE

dustc1000

fleshOE

utter mana1050

bonesOE

bodiȝlichc1175

bouka1225

bellyc1275

slimec1315

corpsec1325

vesselc1360

tabernaclec1374

carrion1377

corsec1386

personc1390

claya1400

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lump of claya1425

sensuality?a1425

corpusc1440

God's imagea1450

bulka1475

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outward man1526

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blood bulk1570

skinfula1592

flesh-rind1593

clod1595

anatomy1597

veil1598

microcosm1601

machine1604

outwall1608

lay part1609

machina1612

cabinet1614

automaton1644

case1655

mud wall1662

structure1671

soul case1683

incarnation1745

personality1748

personage1785

man1830

embodiment1850

flesh-stuff1855

corporeity1865

chassis1930

soma1958

1461 Rolls of Parl. V. 463/1 Beaute of personage..it hath pleased Almyghty God to send you.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. v. 114 Fowle and laithly all hir personage.

c1559 R. Hall Life Fisher in J. Fisher Wks. (1876) II. p. lxiij Doctor Ridley (who was a man of verie little and small personage).

1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 32 Well borne, vertuous, chaste, of tall and comely personage, and well spoken.

1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 344 The Armenians are..of comely Personage.

1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 85 Of a Gentile Personage, and a very agreeable behaviour in conversation.

1785 W. Cowper Let. 20 Dec. (1981) II. 426 Half a dozen flannel waistcoats..to be worn..next my personage.

1880 W. Watson Price's Quest & Other Poems 116 A stranger, of a goodly personage, Young, and right richly habited.

1987 M. W. Bonanno Strangers from Sky i. iii. 199 Parneb poured himself a cup of tea at last, folding his ectomorphic personage onto the stone steps to sip at it delicately.

2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 23 Nov. 18 He is an artist. Only, rather than applying oil to canvas, he uses his own personage to express his vision of beauty.

b. With distinguishing word: a person having a particular figure or appearance. Cf. person n. 4b.In later use frequently merging with sense 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > [noun] > with reference to appearance

figurea1325

personagea1522

presence1705

spectre1807

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. viii. 147 Sum the maist semyly farrand personage Tystis to the feild.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. 27 A comely personage, That in his hand a white rod menaged.

1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre iii. 75 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian He was a beautifull personage, tall, and of the goodliest countenance that could be seen.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Personage, the same with Person; as She was a comely Personage.

1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone iii. 51 The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly Personage.

1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance vi. 56 It was a ridiculous piece of romance..to imagine that this beautiful personage..could have given herself away so privately.

1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxi. 244 A rather angular personage, with prim gray hair and spectacles.

2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 May e ii. 39/2 A small blobby personage.

3. A representation of a person; an image or effigy; a statue or portrait. rare after 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > of living thing > of human figure

figurec1400

personage1483

portrait1585

scheme1638

portrait picture1853

anthropomorph1894

1483 in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1861) I. 6 There was a personage like to the symilitude of the king in habet royall crowned with the crown oon his hede.

1561 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 134 Ane fals ruif..of grene velvot maid in broderie with greit treis, personages, [etc.].

1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 186 The gate was wrought of masons warke of stone..full of figures or personages.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vii. xxxviii Alexander streightly forbad..that none should engraue his personage but Pyrgoteles the grauer.

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xxix. 420 Upon this litter they set the personage of the idoll, appoynted for the feast.

1633 A. Munday et al. Stow's Surv. of London (new ed.) 639 The Company called by the name of Marblers, for their excellent knowledge..in the Art of Insculpting personages for Tombes.

1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 184/1 Miró contrives what he calls a ‘personage’ out of a foot, a sexual organ, and a few pubic hairs.

4. The type of person anyone is, or is represented as being; character, status, or bearing. Also occasionally figurative. rare after 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] > person in respect of character

personagec1485

man1674

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > others

micklea1300

personagec1485

Triton1589

Jovian1598

gallimaufry1600

lords of creation1649

man of destiny1827

mugwump1828

man of the moment1837

history-maker1848

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 262 Ffor the principale caus of armes taking, js for to knawe the personagis of noble men jn bataill.

1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces i. sig. F.4 Poetes iudge comly what soeuer becometh a man by his personage.

1560 H. Cole Let. in J. Jewel & H. Cole True Copies Lett. sig. B.ii^v The greater personage you beare, the lesse cause haue ye to be put to answeare.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 115 Many good parts ought to be in the parsonage of a Sergeant Maior.

a1630 D. Hume Hist. Houses Douglas & Angus (1644) 235 His action and valour were answerable to his personage and body.

a1785 J. Hall-Stevenson Crazy Tales in Wks. (1795) 93 His personage is grave and full of state..But with a boon-companion gay and free.

1983 P. Kurth Anastasia (1985) ii. x. 306 There was a tendency to reflect only on the person and to overlook the personage, to forget who these ladies were.

†5. The quality of being a person, or human in nature. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > [noun] > quality of being

personalitya1425

personagea1530

manlikeness1742

personhood1944

a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxxxviii^v For here is no consubstancialite nor personage, whiche is in y^e deite.

†6. With possessive: personal identity, individual self. Obsolete. rare. our personages: ourselves.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood

personage1531

selfhood1568

identity1596

selfness1611

personship1645

egoity1651

I-hood1653

ipseity1659

inbeing1661

minehood1662

my-ness1662

selfship1664

personal identity1694

seity1709

personality1710

proprium1781

me1828

I-shipa1834

I-ety1835

selfdom1848

ownhood1856

I-ness1870

ego-hood1873

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > self > one's, etc., self

myselfeOE

onec1175

persona1382

ownselfa1400

personage1531

his (also her, my) watch?1536

manself1880

his jills1906

ass1916

fanny1916

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxiv. sig. hiv^v Any thinge, wherby our wittes may be amended, & our personages be more apte to serue our publike weale.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 179 Acts of his personage and not of ours.

a. A character adopted or impersonated, esp. in a play; a guise; an assumed role or office. Now rare.Chiefly in phrases, as to play (also assume, put on, represent, take on, †take upon oneself) the personage of: to assume the character of, play the part of. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > of a character

personage1534

personation1589

impersonating1609

personating1615

impersonification1787

impersonation1792

personification1814

impersonization1890

1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces i. sig. R.6 He putteth away the personage of a frende whan he putteth vpon hym the personage of a iudge.

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie Pref. sig. *ij Hir maiestie representeth the personage of the hole land.

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 37 You have hitherto represented the personage of one, whom you are not.

1641 Ld. J. Digby Speech in Comm. 21 Apr. 3 Judges wee are now, and must put on another personage.

1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (1877) I. i. xix. 75 Whatsoever personage a man takes upon himself to perform, he ever mixes his own part with it.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. x. 200 For a Saxon swineherd,..I have not ill played the personage of a Norman squire-at-arms.

1901 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Feb. 6/1 It is common for tragedians to shut themselves up in their dressing-rooms between the acts of a play, and to reassume their personage immediately on being called.

2001 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 5 Jan. (Lifestyle section) 23 A docent who assumes the personage of Victoria Confino, a 14-year-old Sephardic Jew who lived in the building in 1916.

b. Any of the characters (dramatis personae) of a play, or of a dramatic poem, novel, etc.; a performer representing this character. Also: a real figure regarded as playing a part in history. Cf. person n. 1, persona n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun]

personc1230

parcela1400

part1488

personagea1540

quality1566

shape1604

figurea1616

cast1631

character1664

rolea1731

a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 17427 In divers rewis playis and personagis Sum contenance on scaffaldis and on stagis.

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. to Harvey §1 His [sc. Spenser's] dewe obseruing of Decorum everye where, in personages, in seasons, in matter, in speach.

1594 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 33 There being in that Tragœdie sondry personages of greatest astate, to be represented in auncient princely attire.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. iii. Vision (stage direct.) Enter solemnely..sixe Personages, clad in white Robes.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 292 The Characters, or Personages, employ'd by our new orthodox Dialogists.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 156. ⁋6 Only three speaking personages should appear at once upon the stage.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. Pref. 7 The motives of the personages are sometimes as apparent as their actions.

1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. xix. 144 I intend that Madeline Staveley shall..be the most interesting personage in this story.

1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 105 What holds the play together is a unity of inspiration that radiates into plot and personages alike.

1993 E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. (ed. 3) ii. 44/1 The Red Queen hypothesis, based upon Lewis Carroll's formidable personage in Alice Through the Looking Glass.

†c. Acting or pretence. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun]

hue971

glozea1300

showingc1300

coloura1325

illusionc1340

frontc1374

simulationc1380

visage1390

cheera1393

sign?a1425

countenance?c1425

study?c1430

cloak1526

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visure1531

face1542

masquery?1544

show1547

gloss1548

glass1552

affectation1561

colourableness1571

fashion1571

personage?1571

ostentation1607

disguise1632

lustrementa1641

grimace1655

varnish1662

masquerade1674

guisea1677

whitewash1730

varnish1743

maya1789

vraisemblance1802

Japan1856

veneering1865

veneer1868

affectedness1873

candy coating1885

simulance1885

window dressing1903

?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. Miiij At Setons sche threw away all hir disguisit personage of mourning.

Phrases

†P1. in one's own personage: in person, personally. Cf. person n. Phrases 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > present [phrase] > in person

in (one's) proper persona1325

in one's (own) persona1393

in person1436

in one's own personagec1534

in propria persona1654

c1534 T. Cranmer Let. 3 June in Remains (1833) I. 117 To examine in your own personage the said misdoers.

c1534 T. Cranmer Let. in Remains (1833) I. 111 In case I had so spoken the same unto you in my own personage.

P2. † in the personage of adv.

a. As representing; in the character of. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > delegated authority > action or function of a delegate or deputy > as deputy or representative [phrase]

in his steadc1230

in the stead ofa1325

in (the) person ofa1425

in the personage of1558

1558 Q. Kennedy Compendius Tractiue xiv. sig. F.vii Spekying vnto his Apostolis in the personage of the rest of the ministeris of the kirk of god.

b. As represented by; personified in. Cf. in (the) person of phr. at person n. Phrases 3. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > personification > personified in [phrase]

in the personage of1888

1888 J. Payn Prince of Blood I. i. 30 ‘Circumstances over which she had no control’, in the personage of her brother Ernest, were impelling her.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	personage
释义	personagen. Brit. /ˈpəːsn̩ɪdʒ/, /ˈpəːsənɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈpərsənɪdʒ/ Forms: late Middle English– personage, 1500s personnage, 1500s personnaige, 1500s–1600s parsonage; Scottish pre-1700 parsonage, pre-1700 personag, pre-1700 personaig, pre-1700 personege, pre-1700 personnage, pre-1700 personnaige, pre-1700 persounage, pre-1700 1700s– personage; also Irish English (northern) 1900s– parsioniage. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French parsonage. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman parsonage, Anglo-Norman and Middle French personage, Middle French personnage, personnaige (French personnage ) person of consequence (early 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman; compare also other more distantly related early senses s.v. parsonage n.), ecclesiastical dignitary (1250 in Old French), the body of a person (late 13th cent. in Old French), fictional character in a drama (1384), image or statue representing a person (1422), the role a person plays in life (c1500) < personne person n. + -age -age suffix. Compare post-classical Latin personagium image, effigy (1489), acting, dramatic presentation (1486; compare also earlier sense s.v. parsonage n.). Compare also Old Occitan personatge (13th cent.), Catalan personatge (1460), Spanish personaje (13th cent.), Italian personaggio (1483). Compare earlier parsonage n. 1. a. A person of high rank, distinction, or importance; a person of note. Frequently with modifying word, as great, important, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important persona1425 personagec1460 colossus1605 satrapon1650 bigwig1772 big man1789 butt-cut1806 tallboy1820 buzz-wig1854 great or high shot1861 celestial1874 pot1880 big stuff1883 importance1886 big wheel1893 mandarin1907 the (also a) big noise1909 hotty1910 big boy1918 biggie1926 hotshot1933 wheel1933 eminence1935 top hat1936 big or great white chief1937 Mr Big1940 big kahuna1966 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [noun] kingeOE master-spiritc1175 douzepersc1330 sire1362 worthya1375 lantern1382 sira1400 greatc1400 noblec1400 persona1425 lightc1425 magnate?a1439 worthyman1439 personagec1460 giant1535 honourablec1540 triedc1540 magnifico1573 ornament1573 signor1583 hero1592 grandee1604 prominent1608 name1611 magnificent1612 choice spirita1616 illustricity1637 luminary1692 lion1715 swell1786 notable1796 top-sawyer1826 star1829 celebrity1831 notability1832 notoriety1841 mighty1853 tycoon1861 reputation1870 public figure1871 star turn1885 headliner1896 front-pager1899 legend1899 celeb1907 big name1909 big-timer1917 Hall of Famer1948 megastar1969 c1460 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1837) VI. 336 (MED) Our high court of Parlement, to þe which..confluence is not oonly of al maner personages of our obeisaunce but also of many a straunger. 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 25 Preamble Honorable personages to have joint..power with the seid persones rehersed. a1601 W. Lambarde Archion (1635) 56 He [sc. the keeper of the Great Seal] is a great personage. 1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 42 The Councel of Spain was then full of many eminent personages. 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 268 Her Majesty, is a Personage endowed with rare Perfections both of Mind and Body. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 17 I made up then to this important personage, without lifting up my eyes. 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl VI. iv. 158 Delighted to be queen of the company where she might top the great personage. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. vii. 177 Sir John Warren bought another estate, and picked up another borough. He was fast becoming a personage. 1893 F. F. Moore I forbid Banns (1899) 120 Lady Ashenthorpe was a Personage. That she had become a Personage, proved that she possessed a large amount of tact. 1943 J. B. Priestley Daylight on Sat. xxxi. 245 He was one of that select..group of second-string personages for whom the party..had always to provide. 1986 ‘A. Cross’ No Word from Winifred x. 131 As principal of a college, and a scholar renowned in her field, Stanton was a personage. b. In weakened sense: a person; an individual (without the implication of status or importance).Sometimes used ironically or humorously of a self-important person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] hadc900 lifesmaneOE maneOE world-maneOE ghostOE wyeOE lifeOE son of manOE wightc1175 soulc1180 earthmanc1225 foodc1225 person?c1225 creaturec1300 bodyc1325 beera1382 poppetc1390 flippera1400 wat1399 corsec1400 mortal?a1425 deadly?c1450 hec1450 personagec1485 wretcha1500 human1509 mundane1509 member1525 worma1556 homo1561 piece of flesh1567 sconce1567 squirrel?1567 fellow creature1572 Adamite1581 bloat herringa1586 earthling1593 mother's child1594 stuff1598 a piece of flesh1600 wagtail1607 bosom1608 fragment1609 boots1623 tick1631 worthy1649 earthlies1651 snap1653 pippin1665 being1666 personal1678 personality1678 sooterkin1680 party1686 worldling1687 human being1694 water-wagtail1694 noddle1705 human subject1712 piece of work1713 somebody1724 terrestrial1726 anybody1733 individual1742 character1773 cuss1775 jig1781 thingy1787 bod1788 curse1790 his nabs1790 article1796 Earthite1814 critter1815 potato1815 personeityc1816 nibs1821 somebody1826 tellurian1828 case1832 tangata1840 prawn1845 nigger1848 nut1856 Snooks1860 mug1865 outfit1867 to deliver the goods1870 hairpin1879 baby1880 possum1894 hot tamale1895 babe1900 jobbie1902 virile1903 cup of tea1908 skin1914 pisser1918 number1919 job1927 apple1928 mush1936 face1944 jong1956 naked ape1965 oke1970 punter1975 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 262 And sa suld the diuersitee of armes mak the knaulage of the diuersitee of persounagis. 1524 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 495 All and sundry personegeis. a1555 J. Bradford in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) III. 1830 Many which were in comparison of Peter, but rascall personages. 1668 D. Lloyd (title) Memoires of the Lives..of those Personages who Suffered for the Protestant Religion. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xv. 99 The Arrival of two very extraordinary Personages . View more context for this quotation 1786 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscretions II. 56 The Seraphic Miss Franklin, was, in his present opinion, a very disgusting personage. 1818 R. Sharp Lett. & Ess. (1834) 54 Your shrewd, sly, evil-speaking fellow is generally a shallow personage. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such ii. 28 No impassioned personage wishes he had been born in the age of Pitt. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 215 That ready-witted and helpful personage. 1957 L. Durrell Justine ii. 134 It was these very defects of character..which constituted for me the greatest attraction of this weird kinetic personage. 1995 New Yorker 27 Mar. 106/2 An unhappy personage shouts..a series of deliberately dumbed-down phrases. 2. a. The body of a person, esp. with reference to appearance, stature, etc.; a person's figure; personal appearance. Cf. person n. 4a. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > [noun] > with regard to appearance form1297 personc1390 personage1461 moul1565 mould1580 shape1602 flesha1616 habit1652 figure1717 the world > life > the body > [noun] lichamc888 bodyeOE earthOE lichOE bone houseOE dustc1000 fleshOE utter mana1050 bonesOE bodiȝlichc1175 bouka1225 bellyc1275 slimec1315 corpsec1325 vesselc1360 tabernaclec1374 carrion1377 corsec1386 personc1390 claya1400 carcass1406 lump of claya1425 sensuality?a1425 corpusc1440 God's imagea1450 bulka1475 natural body1526 outward man1526 quarrons1567 blood bulk1570 skinfula1592 flesh-rind1593 clod1595 anatomy1597 veil1598 microcosm1601 machine1604 outwall1608 lay part1609 machina1612 cabinet1614 automaton1644 case1655 mud wall1662 structure1671 soul case1683 incarnation1745 personality1748 personage1785 man1830 embodiment1850 flesh-stuff1855 corporeity1865 chassis1930 soma1958 1461 Rolls of Parl. V. 463/1 Beaute of personage..it hath pleased Almyghty God to send you. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. v. 114 Fowle and laithly all hir personage. c1559 R. Hall Life Fisher in J. Fisher Wks. (1876) II. p. lxiij Doctor Ridley (who was a man of verie little and small personage). 1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 32 Well borne, vertuous, chaste, of tall and comely personage, and well spoken. 1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 344 The Armenians are..of comely Personage. 1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 85 Of a Gentile Personage, and a very agreeable behaviour in conversation. 1785 W. Cowper Let. 20 Dec. (1981) II. 426 Half a dozen flannel waistcoats..to be worn..next my personage. 1880 W. Watson Price's Quest & Other Poems 116 A stranger, of a goodly personage, Young, and right richly habited. 1987 M. W. Bonanno Strangers from Sky i. iii. 199 Parneb poured himself a cup of tea at last, folding his ectomorphic personage onto the stone steps to sip at it delicately. 2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 23 Nov. 18 He is an artist. Only, rather than applying oil to canvas, he uses his own personage to express his vision of beauty. b. With distinguishing word: a person having a particular figure or appearance. Cf. person n. 4b.In later use frequently merging with sense 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] > with reference to appearance figurea1325 personagea1522 presence1705 spectre1807 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. viii. 147 Sum the maist semyly farrand personage Tystis to the feild. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. 27 A comely personage, That in his hand a white rod menaged. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre iii. 75 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian He was a beautifull personage, tall, and of the goodliest countenance that could be seen. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Personage, the same with Person; as She was a comely Personage. 1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone iii. 51 The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly Personage. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance vi. 56 It was a ridiculous piece of romance..to imagine that this beautiful personage..could have given herself away so privately. 1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxi. 244 A rather angular personage, with prim gray hair and spectacles. 2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 May e ii. 39/2 A small blobby personage. 3. A representation of a person; an image or effigy; a statue or portrait. rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > of living thing > of human figure figurec1400 personage1483 portrait1585 scheme1638 portrait picture1853 anthropomorph1894 1483 in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1861) I. 6 There was a personage like to the symilitude of the king in habet royall crowned with the crown oon his hede. 1561 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 134 Ane fals ruif..of grene velvot maid in broderie with greit treis, personages, [etc.]. 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 186 The gate was wrought of masons warke of stone..full of figures or personages. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vii. xxxviii Alexander streightly forbad..that none should engraue his personage but Pyrgoteles the grauer. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xxix. 420 Upon this litter they set the personage of the idoll, appoynted for the feast. 1633 A. Munday et al. Stow's Surv. of London (new ed.) 639 The Company called by the name of Marblers, for their excellent knowledge..in the Art of Insculpting personages for Tombes. 1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 184/1 Miró contrives what he calls a ‘personage’ out of a foot, a sexual organ, and a few pubic hairs. 4. The type of person anyone is, or is represented as being; character, status, or bearing. Also occasionally figurative. rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] > person in respect of character personagec1485 man1674 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > others micklea1300 personagec1485 Triton1589 Jovian1598 gallimaufry1600 lords of creation1649 man of destiny1827 mugwump1828 man of the moment1837 history-maker1848 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 262 Ffor the principale caus of armes taking, js for to knawe the personagis of noble men jn bataill. 1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces i. sig. F.4 Poetes iudge comly what soeuer becometh a man by his personage. 1560 H. Cole Let. in J. Jewel & H. Cole True Copies Lett. sig. B.ii^v The greater personage you beare, the lesse cause haue ye to be put to answeare. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 115 Many good parts ought to be in the parsonage of a Sergeant Maior. a1630 D. Hume Hist. Houses Douglas & Angus (1644) 235 His action and valour were answerable to his personage and body. a1785 J. Hall-Stevenson Crazy Tales in Wks. (1795) 93 His personage is grave and full of state..But with a boon-companion gay and free. 1983 P. Kurth Anastasia (1985) ii. x. 306 There was a tendency to reflect only on the person and to overlook the personage, to forget who these ladies were. †5. The quality of being a person, or human in nature. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] > quality of being personalitya1425 personagea1530 manlikeness1742 personhood1944 a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxxxviii^v For here is no consubstancialite nor personage, whiche is in y^e deite. †6. With possessive: personal identity, individual self. Obsolete. rare. our personages: ourselves. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood personage1531 selfhood1568 identity1596 selfness1611 personship1645 egoity1651 I-hood1653 ipseity1659 inbeing1661 minehood1662 my-ness1662 selfship1664 personal identity1694 seity1709 personality1710 proprium1781 me1828 I-shipa1834 I-ety1835 selfdom1848 ownhood1856 I-ness1870 ego-hood1873 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > self > one's, etc., self myselfeOE onec1175 persona1382 ownselfa1400 personage1531 his (also her, my) watch?1536 manself1880 his jills1906 ass1916 fanny1916 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxiv. sig. hiv^v Any thinge, wherby our wittes may be amended, & our personages be more apte to serue our publike weale. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 179 Acts of his personage and not of ours. 7. a. A character adopted or impersonated, esp. in a play; a guise; an assumed role or office. Now rare.Chiefly in phrases, as to play (also assume, put on, represent, take on, †take upon oneself) the personage of: to assume the character of, play the part of. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > of a character personage1534 personation1589 impersonating1609 personating1615 impersonification1787 impersonation1792 personification1814 impersonization1890 1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces i. sig. R.6 He putteth away the personage of a frende whan he putteth vpon hym the personage of a iudge. 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie Pref. sig. ij Hir maiestie representeth the personage of the hole land. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena* 37 You have hitherto represented the personage of one, whom you are not. 1641 Ld. J. Digby Speech in Comm. 21 Apr. 3 Judges wee are now, and must put on another personage. 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (1877) I. i. xix. 75 Whatsoever personage a man takes upon himself to perform, he ever mixes his own part with it. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. x. 200 For a Saxon swineherd,..I have not ill played the personage of a Norman squire-at-arms. 1901 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Feb. 6/1 It is common for tragedians to shut themselves up in their dressing-rooms between the acts of a play, and to reassume their personage immediately on being called. 2001 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 5 Jan. (Lifestyle section) 23 A docent who assumes the personage of Victoria Confino, a 14-year-old Sephardic Jew who lived in the building in 1916. b. Any of the characters (dramatis personae) of a play, or of a dramatic poem, novel, etc.; a performer representing this character. Also: a real figure regarded as playing a part in history. Cf. person n. 1, persona n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] personc1230 parcela1400 part1488 personagea1540 quality1566 shape1604 figurea1616 cast1631 character1664 rolea1731 a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 17427 In divers rewis playis and personagis Sum contenance on scaffaldis and on stagis. 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. to Harvey §1 His [sc. Spenser's] dewe obseruing of Decorum everye where, in personages, in seasons, in matter, in speach. 1594 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 33 There being in that Tragœdie sondry personages of greatest astate, to be represented in auncient princely attire. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. iii. Vision (stage direct.) Enter solemnely..sixe Personages, clad in white Robes. View more context for this quotation 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 292 The Characters, or Personages, employ'd by our new orthodox Dialogists. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 156. ⁋6 Only three speaking personages should appear at once upon the stage. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. Pref. 7 The motives of the personages are sometimes as apparent as their actions. 1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. xix. 144 I intend that Madeline Staveley shall..be the most interesting personage in this story. 1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 105 What holds the play together is a unity of inspiration that radiates into plot and personages alike. 1993 E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. (ed. 3) ii. 44/1 The Red Queen hypothesis, based upon Lewis Carroll's formidable personage in Alice Through the Looking Glass. †c. Acting or pretence. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] hue971 glozea1300 showingc1300 coloura1325 illusionc1340 frontc1374 simulationc1380 visage1390 cheera1393 sign?a1425 countenance?c1425 study?c1430 cloak1526 false colour1531 visure1531 face1542 masquery?1544 show1547 gloss1548 glass1552 affectation1561 colourableness1571 fashion1571 personage?1571 ostentation1607 disguise1632 lustrementa1641 grimace1655 varnish1662 masquerade1674 guisea1677 whitewash1730 varnish1743 maya1789 vraisemblance1802 Japan1856 veneering1865 veneer1868 affectedness1873 candy coating1885 simulance1885 window dressing1903 ?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. Miiij At Setons sche threw away all hir disguisit personage of mourning. Phrases †P1. in one's own personage: in person, personally. Cf. person n. Phrases 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > present [phrase] > in person in (one's) proper persona1325 in one's (own) persona1393 in person1436 in one's own personagec1534 in propria persona1654 c1534 T. Cranmer Let. 3 June in Remains (1833) I. 117 To examine in your own personage the said misdoers. c1534 T. Cranmer Let. in Remains (1833) I. 111 In case I had so spoken the same unto you in my own personage. P2. † in the personage of adv. a. As representing; in the character of. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > action or function of a delegate or deputy > as deputy or representative [phrase] in his steadc1230 in the stead ofa1325 in (the) person ofa1425 in the personage of1558 1558 Q. Kennedy Compendius Tractiue xiv. sig. F.vii Spekying vnto his Apostolis in the personage of the rest of the ministeris of the kirk of god. b. As represented by; personified in. Cf. in (the) person of phr. at person n. Phrases 3. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > personification > personified in [phrase] in the personage of1888 1888 J. Payn Prince of Blood I. i. 30 ‘Circumstances over which she had no control’, in the personage of her brother Ernest, were impelling her. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1460
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