Im-pēr'son-āte, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. IMPERSONATED; p. pr. & vb. n. IMPERSONATING.]

  1. To invest with personality, or the bodily substance of a living being.
  2. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify. Warton.
  3. To represent the person of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth.