Person
Definition of Person
Per´son | n. | 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. | | 2. | The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person. | | 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. | | 4. | A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present. | | 5. | A parson; the parish priest. | | 6. | (Theol.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. | | 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. | | 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. | | v. t. | 1. | To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. |
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