personate
verb (used with object)
to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
personator
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a word derived from
personate.
Example Sentences
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The Midē´, as the personator of Makwa´ Man´idō, is empowered to offer this privilege to the candidate.
From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Walter James Hoffman
The supposed personator of the King was unquestionably an unprincipled time-server.
From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett
There was the personator in Subdivision Six of a dead man—a dead Grit—wanted by the bloodhounds of the other side and tracked to the Reform committee room, where he was ostensibly and publicly taking refuge.
From The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan
The first errand of the returned personator of Christ was to his author!
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
The personator of this god in the ceremonies assumes the additional character of a clown and as such creates much merriment in the dances in which he appears.
From The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis
