Definition of "personated" [personated]

• Past participle of personate (verb)

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• "She readily lent an ear to the insinuations which Scarfe, also bitterly hurt, freely let out, and persuaded herself miserably that her boy was in the hands of an adventurer who had cajoled not only the boy but the father, and in short personated the proverbial viper at the fireside."
• "Several days after, the man who was "personated" appeared in Aroostook, alive and well, never having been attacked with the cholera."
• "But in actuality, we have something closer to the situation that Thomas Hobbes identified centuries ago as pertaining to the concept of sovereignty: the commonwealth only exists insofar as it is "personated," and that personation is, at bottom, a social convention."