Hypertext Webster Gateway: "impersonate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Impersonate \Im*per"son*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Impersonated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impersonating}.]
1. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a
living being.
2. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify.
3. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to
personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth.
Benedict impersonated his age. --Milman.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
impersonate
v 1: assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna"
[syn: {portray}]
2: represent another person with comic intentions
3: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent
intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: {pose},
{personate}]
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