vi to play or assume a character.
2. personate ·vt to celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
3. personate ·vt to set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
4. personate ·vt to personify; to typify; to describe.
5. personate ·adj having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.
6. personate ·vt to assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.