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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Person \Per"son\, n. [OE. persone, persoun person, parson, OF
persone, F. personne, L. persona a mask (used by actors), a
personage, part a person, fr personare to sound through
per + sonare to sound. See {Per-}, and cf {Parson}.]
1. 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. [Archaic]
His first appearance upon the stage in his new
person of a sycophant or juggler. --Bacon.
No man can long put on a person and act a part
--Jer. Taylor.
To bear rule which was thy part And person, hadst
thou known thyself aright. --Milton.
How different is the same man from himself, as he
sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a
friend! --South.
2. The bodily form of a human being body; outward
appearance; as of comely person.
A fair persone, and strong, and young of age.
--Chaucer.
If it assume my noble father's person. --Shak.
Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.
--Milton.
3. A living, self-conscious being as distinct from an animal
or a thing a moral agent; a human being a man, woman, or
child.
Consider what person stands for which I think, is
a thinking, intelligent being that has reason and
reflection. --Locke.
4. A human being spoken of indefinitely; one a man; as any
person present.
5. A parson; the parish priest. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
6. (Theol.) 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.'' --Bk. of
Com. Prayer.
7. (Gram.) 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.
Note: A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is
said to be in the first person; when representing what
is spoken to in the second person; when representing
what is spoken of in the third person.
8. (Biol.) 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. --Haeckel.
True corms, composed of united person[ae] . . .
usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and
corals occasionally by fusion of several originally
distinct persons. --Encyc. Brit.
{Artificial}, or {Fictitious}, {person} (Law), a corporation
or body politic. --blackstone.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fictitious \Fic*ti"tious\, a. [L. fictitius. See {Fiction}.]
Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false;
not genuine; as fictitious fame.
The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.
--Pope.
-- {Fic*ti"tious*ly}, adv -- {Fic*ti"tious*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
fictitious
adj 1: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse
for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional
character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"
[syn: {fabricated}, {fancied}, {fictional}, {invented},
{made-up}]
2: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed
cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy";
"a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham
modesty" [syn: {assumed}, {false}, {fictive}, {pretended},
{put on}, {sham}]
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