Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Personified"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Personify \Per*son"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Personified}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Personifying}.] [Person + -fy: cf. F.
personnifier.]
1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent
as a rational being.

The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate
things. --Chesterfield.

2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to
impersonate; as, he personifies the law.


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