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 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 youth was a man an inch and a half or two inches taller, and weighing five-and-twenty stone.
From The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) by Henry Hawkins, Baron Brampton
An impostor, a personator, a cheat, and I gave him place and rank.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
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 uncomfortable personator of himself signified promptly his entire comprehension.
From A Poached Peerage by William Magnay
