personate verb 5adjective 1forms 3 verb5 •To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate.But this latter has, at the suggestion of Tyndarus, exchanged clothes with him, and the slave[…] personates the master. — 1873 •To portray a character (as in a play); to act. •To attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify.One do I personate of Timon's frame , Whom Fortune with her iv'ry hand wafts to her — 1605 •To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. •(no longer used) To celebrate loudly; to extol, to praise.In fable, hymn, or song so personating / Their gods ridiculous. — 1671 adjective1 •Having the throat of a corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip (reminiscent of a mask), as in the flower of the snapdragon.This arrangement is well typified in plants with a personate corolla, such as the toad-flax and snap-dragon, ... — 1881 formspersonated · personating · personates