Im*per"son*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impersonated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Impersonating.]
1.
To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.
2.
To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify.
3.
To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth.
Benedict impersonated his age.
Milman.
© Webster 1913.