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单词 personified
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personifiedadj.

Brit. /pəˈsɒnᵻfʌɪd/, U.S. /pərˈsɑnəˌfaɪd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: personify v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < personify v. + -ed suffix1. Compare French personnifié (1757).
1. Represented, spoken of, or imagined as a person.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > personification > [adjective] > personified
personateda1613
personatea1631
personified1753
personalized1873
1753 J. Warton in C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid vi, in J. Warton et al. tr. Virgil Wks. III. 196 (note) Spencer has introduced some personified figures in the entrance to Mammon's cave.
1765 W. Shirley Birth of Hercules ii. ii, in Electra 119 (stage direct.) A grand dance is performed by the following personified Virtues and Blessings. Industry, and Health [etc.].
1833 H. Martineau French Wines & Politics i. 16 Alms issuing from an English merchant's pocket..in the name of a personified vineyard.
1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) vi. 236 The worship of personified principles, such as Fear, Love, Hope, &c.
1957 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation I. 18 The personified sun..becomes a supernatural being who controls the sun.
2001 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 34 131 Renaissance conceptualizations of artisanal practice and nature..viewed man as an imitator of a playful, autonomous personified Nature.
2. Of a thing, animal, etc.: made into a person; having or given human form or character. Cf. personify v. 2. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > people > person > [adjective] > of human form
two-legged1560
manlike1590
walkinga1616
hominiform1678
human-like1748
anthropomorphous1753
anthropomorphic1827
anthropoid1835
personified1851
bimanal1859
anthropoidal1865
humanoid1914
hominoid1950
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1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 ii. ii. 146 The poem of Dante was to Italy what the spark of the sun was to the personified clay of Prometheus.
1899 Harper's Mag. Feb. 385 A fierce battle raged between the personified geese who hissed and the men who resented the offence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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