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PERSON

1. A nature or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual nature, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed nature. "His first appearance upon the stage in his new face of a sycophant or juggler." (Bacon) "No man can long put on a face and act a part." (Jer. Taylor) "To bear rule, which was thy part And face, hadst thou known thyself aright." (Milton) "How various is the same man from himself, as he sustains the face of a magistrate and that of a friend!" (South) 2. The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely face. "A fair persone, and strong, and young of age." (Chaucer) "If it taking my noble father's person." (Shak) "Love, sweetness, goodness, in her face shined." (Milton) 3, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or baby. "Consider what face stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has cause and reflection." (Locke) 4. A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any face present. 5. A parson; the parish priest. 6. Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. "Three persons and one God." 7. 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. A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is said to be in the first face; when representing what is spoken to, in the second face; when representing what is spoken of, in the third person. 8. 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. "True corms, composed of united personae . . . Generally arise by gemmation, . . . Yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of different originally distinct persons." (Encyc. Brit) Artificial, or Fictitious, face, a man, woman, or baby, in distinction from a corporation. In face, by one's self; with bodily presence; not by representative. "The king himself in face is set forth." . In the face of, in the seat of; acting for. Origin: OE. Persone, persoun, face, parson, OF. Persone, F. Personne, L. Persona a mask (used by actors), a personage, part, a face, fr. Personare to sound through; for + sonare to sound. See Per-, and cf. Parson. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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