Definition of "personates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of personate. (verb)

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• "BEGALA: No, and it's in part because I think the personates (ph) were a little sharper back then I think probably."
• "See with what a ferocious air the gentleman who personates the Mexican chief, paces up and down, and with what an eye of calm dignity the principal tragedian gazes on the crowd below, or converses confidentially with the harlequin!"
• "If a group of us is adequately represented by one person, that person personates the whole group as one person by being the representative in virtue of whom the whole group has a unified responsibility."