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3 definitions found 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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