单词 | personating |
释义 | personatingn. Now rare. The action of impersonating or assuming the character of someone else; an instance of this. Now chiefly Canadian Law. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > of a character personage1534 personation1589 impersonating1609 personating1615 impersonification1787 impersonation1792 personification1814 impersonization1890 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 83 The manner of their lamentings..may appeare by this ironicall personating of a father following the exequies of his sonne, introducted by Lucian. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. i. 33 It must be a personating of himselfe. View more context for this quotation 1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. viii. 365 The Personating of a Christian and a Jew by way of Dialogue. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 288 To deal the better with his Sceptick-Friend, he falls again to personating. 1829 S. J. B. Hale Sketches of Amer. Char. 232 In the consternation of the moment, he acknowledged what had been his own intentions respecting the personating of the apparition. 1862 New Amer. Cycl. (new ed.) XIII. 286/2 He [sc. Plato] would banish all dramatic poetry as involving the personating of fictitious characters, and thus virtually sanctioning falsehood. 1993 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 24 Apr. (Metro section) b5 He and Edmond Mitchell..were fined $400 each for the fairly obscure charge of personating. 2003 Winnipeg Sun (Nexis) 27 Oct. (News section) 18 A three-year sentence for trafficking, personating and failing to appear in court. Compounds personating agent n. = personation agent n. at personation n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > candidate's agent preventing personation personation agent1864 personating agent1879 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > procedures used in spying > [noun] > private detection > person engaged in > employed at elections personation agent1864 personating agent1879 1879 Law Rep.: Common Pleas Div. 4 193 At the polling-station in which the respondent acted as personating agent. 2000 Re: Election Newsflash in soc.culture.irish (Usenet newsgroup) 9 Nov. I turned to the personating agent beside me and says [sic], ‘I can't find Thomas J. Corrigan, Skreen.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). personatingadj. rare. That personates (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] > engaged in pretence pretense1395 would-be?c1400 fictive1493 counterfeitc1515 feigningc1540 sembling1568 personating1612 shamming1682 gammoning1817 possum playing1856 simulating1875 society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [adjective] figural?a1500 sacramental1534 shadowing1579 hieroglyphical1581 similitudinary1581 morala1616 symbolical1620 characterical1634 shadowy1641 emblematical1644 emblematic1645 hieroglyphic1647 symbolic1681 emblematizing1751 tokening1820 imagerial1837 twi-necked1840 personating1851 symptomatic1853 symbolizing1909 uroboric1958 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion To Rdr. sig. A2 In winding steps of Personating Fictions. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 296 The active dramatick, mimical or personating way; according to which a Writer is properly poetical. 1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. ii. 3 A personating Image, wherein woe Was wrapt in beauty from offending much. 1999 California Supreme Court Service (Nexis) 14 May Falsely impersonating another in such a way that..the personating individual or someone else might accrue benefit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1615adj.1612 |
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