Personalty
Per″son‐al‐ty (?), n. 1. The state of being a person; personality.2. (Law) Personal property, as distinguished from realty or real property.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Personate
Per″son‐ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Personated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Personating (?).] [L. personare to cry out, LL., to extol. See Person.] To celebrate loudly; to extol; to prai...
Personate (2)
Per″son‐ate, v. t. [L. personatus masked, assumed, fictitious, fr. persona a mask. See Person.] 1. To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act th...
Personate (3)
Per″son‐ate, v. i. To play or assume a character.
Personate (4)
Per″son‐ate (?), a. [L. personatus masked.] (Bot.) Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower ...
Personation
Per′son‐a″tion (?), n. The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another.
Personator
Per″son‐a′tor (?), n. One who personates. “The personators of these actions.” B. Jonson.
Personeity
Per′son‐e″i‐ty (?), n. Personality. Coleridge.
Personification
Per‐son′i‐fi‐ca″tion (?), n. [Cf. F. personnification.] 1. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. C. Knight.2. (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate obje...
Personifier
Per‐son″i‐fi′er (?), n. One who personifies.
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 re...
Personize
Per″son‐ize (?), v. t. To personify.Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
Personnel
‖Per′son′nel″ (?), n. [F. See Personal.] The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; — distinguished from matériel.
Perspective
Per‐spec″tive (pẽr‐spĕk″tĭv), a. [L. perspicere, perspectum, to look through; per + spicere, specere, to look: cf. F. perspectif; or from E. perspective, n. See Spy, n.] 1. Of o...
Perspective (2)
Per‐spec″tive, n. [F. perspective, fr. perspectif: cf. It. perspettiva. See Perspective, a.] 1. A glass through which objects are viewed. “Not a perspective, but a mirror.” Sir ...
Perspectively
Per‐spec″tive‐ly (?), adv. 1. Optically; as through a glass.You see them perspectively. Shak.2. According to the rules of perspective.
Perspectograph
Per‐spec″to‐graph (?), n. [L. perspectus (p. p. of perspicere to look through) + -graph.] An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of ...
Perspectography
Per′spec‐tog″ra‐phy (?), n. The science or art of delineating objects according to the laws of perspective; the theory of perspective.
Perspicable
Per″spi‐ca‐ble (?), a. [L. perspicabilis, fr. perspicere.] Discernible. Herbert.
Perspicacious
Per′spi‐ca″cious (?), a. [L. perspicax, -acis, fr. perspicere to look through: cf. F. perspicace. See Perspective.] 1. Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp o...
Perspicacity
Per′spi‐cac″i‐ty (?), n. [L. perspicacitas: cf. F. perspicacité. See Perspicacious.] The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment. ...
Perspicacy
Per″spi‐ca‐cy (?), n. Perspicacity.
Perspicience
Per‐spi″cience (?), n. [L. perspicientia, fr. perspiciens, p. p. of perspicere. See Perspective.] The act of looking sharply. Bailey.
Perspicil
Per″spi‐cil (?), n. [LL. perspicilla, fr. L. perspicere to look through.] An optical glass; a telescope. Crashaw.
Perspicuity
Per′spi‐cu″i‐ty (?), n. [L. perspicuitas: cf. F. perspicuité.] 1. The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. Sir T. Browne.2. The quality of being perspicuous to ...
Perspicuous
Per‐spic″u‐ous (?), a. [L. perspicuus, from perspicere to look through. See Perspective.] 1. Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque. Peacham.2. Clear to ...
Perspirability
Per‐spir′a‐bil″i‐ty (?), n. The quality or state of being perspirable.