Personify

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate
              things.                               --Chesterfield.
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     2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to
        impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  personify
       v 1: invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: {body}]
       2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
          Hamlet" [syn: {embody}, {be}]
       3: attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks
          personated their gods ridiculous" [syn: {personate}]
       [also: {personified}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "personify":
     adumbrate, body, body forth, corporealize, corporify, demonstrate,
     emblematize, embody, epitomize, exemplify, exteriorize,
     externalize, figure, foreshadow, humanize, illustrate, image,
     impersonate, incarnate, incorporate, manifest, materialize,
     metaphorize, mirror, objectify, personalize, personate, prefigure,
     pretypify, project, realize, reembody, reflect, reincarnate,
     represent, shadow, shadow forth, similize, stand for,
     substantialize, substantiate, substantify, symbolize, transmigrate,
     typify