Crossword clues for personify
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Personify \Per*son"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Personified; p. pr. & vb. n. Personifying.] [Person + -fy: cf. F. personnifier.]
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To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.
The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things.
--Chesterfield. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727 "to attribute personal form to things or abstractions" (especially as an artistic or literary technique), from person + -fy or from French personnifier (17c.), from personne. Meaning "to represent, embody" attested from 1806. Related: Personified; personifying.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To be an example of; to have all the attributes of. 2 (context transitive English) To create a representation of an abstract quality in the form of a literary character.
WordNet
v. invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: body]
represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be]
attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous" [syn: personate]
[also: personified]
Usage examples of "personify".
Abulafia, were merely names for human tendencies which the meditator could subdue and conquer by personifying them as angels and letters.
The attributes of God, personified, became Powers, Spirits, Intelligences.
This Wisdom is the LOGOS that creates, mistaken and personified by Simon Magus and the succeeding Gnostics.
God of the many-colored mantle, he was the resulting manifestation personified, the all in the many, the varied year, life passing into innumerable forms.
The theory of Genii, or Powers of Nature, and its Forces, personified, made part of the Sacred Science of initiation, and of that religious spectacle of different beings exhibited in the Sanctuary.
Soon they personified the Sun, and worshipped him under the name of OSIRIS, and transmuted the legend of his descent among the Winter Signs, into a fable of his death, his descent into the infernal regions, and his resurrection.
In Persia, at a later day, it was the serpent, which, personified as Ahriman, was the Evil Principle of the religion of Zoroaster.
Ormuzd or Osiris, the beneficent Principle that gives the world light, was personified by the Sun, apparent source of light.
The Caduceus, borne by Hermes or Mercury, and also by Cybele, Minerva, Anubis, Hercules Ogmius the God of the Celts, and the personified Constellation Virgo, was a winged wand, entwined by two serpents.
Dionusos, as Sovereign of Nature, or the sensuous world personified, is official Arbiter of the Mysteries, and guide of the soul, which he introduces into the body and dismisses from it.
The inundation was in evident dependence on the Sun, and Egypt, environed with arid deserts, like a heart within a burning censer, was the female power, dependent on the influences personified in its God.
So the pride of Jemsheed, one of the Persian Sun-heroes, or the solar year personified, was abruptly cut off by Zohak, the tyrant of the West.
The Word is said in the Yashna to have existed before all, and to be itself a Yazata, a personified object of prayer.
His works to Secondary Gods, personified, and isolated from Him in fabulous independence.
Thus it is no longer by means of a poetic fiction only that the heavens and the earth become animated and personified, and are deemed living existences, from which other existences proceed.