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A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or
manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in
literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character. |
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The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance;
as, of comely person. |
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A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal
or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child. |
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A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any
person present. |
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A parson; the parish priest. |
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Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the
Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. |
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One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking,
that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a
noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the
subject. |
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A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound
Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense,
among the higher animals. |
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To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. |