What is "in person"

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 person, or Fictitious person (Law), a corporation or body politic; -- this term is used in contrast with natural person, a real human being. See also legal person.
   --Blackstone.

   Legal person (Law), an individual or group that is allowed by law to take legal action, as plaintiff or defendent. It may include natural persons as well as fictitious persons (such as corporations).

   Natural person (Law), a man, woman, or child, in distinction from a corporation.

   In person, by one's self; with bodily presence; not by representative. ``The king himself in person is set forth.''
   --Shak.

   In the person of, in the place of; acting for.
   --Shak.

adv. With one's own body and presence, as opposed to radio, the telephone, television etc. Actually present. In actual presence.

adv. in the flesh; without involving anyone else; "I went there personally"; "he appeared in person" [syn: personally]

adj. an appearance carried out personally in someone else's physical presence; "he carried out the negotiations in person"; "a personal appearance is an appearance by a person in the flesh" [syn: in-person(a), in person(p), in the flesh(p)]

In Person is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded in San Francisco, California in 1968 featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Joe Zawinul, Victor Gaskin and Roy McCurdy with guest vocalists Lou Rawls and Nancy Wilson contributing on one song apiece.

In Person is a Canadian music variety television series which aired on CBC Television from 1966 to 1968.

In Person with Maureen O'Boyle (or simply In Person) is an American daytime talk show that was hosted by Maureen O'Boyle that ran in syndication from September 9, 1996 to September 5, 1997. The show was produced by Telepictures Productions and is distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, and after its cancellation, she went on to be a correspondent of Extra.

In Person may refer to one of several music albums:

• In Person (Cannonball Adderley album), 1968
• In Person (Sweet Female Attitude album), 2001
• In Person (Bobby Timmons album), 1961
• In Person, 1935 film starring Ginger Rogers.
• In Person!, 1959 album by Tony Bennett, accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra
• In Person (TV series), Canadian music variety television series
• In Person (1996 TV series), 1996–1997 talk show

In Person is a 1935 film starring Ginger Rogers. It made a profit of $147,000. It is about Miss Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her fame, that she goes around in disguise. She later meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.

In Person is the debut album of UK garage duo Sweet Female Attitude. It spawned the number two hit, " Flowers". Due to low sales of other singles, the album was only released in Germany.