Definition of personate

• v. t. - To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
• v. t. - To personify; to typify; to describe.
• v. i. - To play or assume a character.
• a. - 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.