Persisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Persist
Persist (v. i.) To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy.
Persistence (n.) Alt. of Persistency
Persistency (n.) The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.
Persistency (n.) The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed
Persistency (n.) The persistence of motion.
Persistency (n.) Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual impression; auditory persistence, etc.
Persistent (a.) Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.
Persistent (a.) Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.
Persistently (adv.) In a persistent manner.
Persisting (a.) Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent.
Persistive (a.) See Persistent.
Persolve (v. t.) To pay wholly, or fully.
Person (n.) 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.
Person (n.) The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
Person (n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
Person (n.) A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
Person (n.) A parson; the parish priest.
Person (n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
Person (n.) 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.
Person (n.) 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.
Person (v. t.) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
Personae (pl. ) of Persona
Persona (n.) Same as Person, n., 8.
Personable (a.) Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.
Personable (a.) Enabled to maintain pleas in court.
Personable (a.) Having capacity to take anything granted.
Personage (n.) Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.
Personage (n.) Character assumed or represented.
Personage (n.) A notable or distinguished person; a conspicious or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall.
Personal (a.) Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
Personal (a.) Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.
Personal (a.) Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.
Personal (a.) Done in person; without the intervention of another.
Personal (a.) Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.
Personal (a.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.
Personal (n.) A movable; a chattel.
Personalism (n.) The quality or state of being personal; personality.
Personalities (pl. ) of Personality
Personality (n.) That which constitutes distinction of person; individuality.
Personality (n.) Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks; as, indulgence in personalities.
Personality (n.) That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons.
Personalized (imp. & p. p.) of Personalize
Personalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Personalize
Personalize (v. t.) To make personal.
Personally (adv.) In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally.
Personally (adv.) With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually; particularly.
Personally (adv.) With respect to one's individuality; as regards one's self; as, personally I have no feeling in the matter.
Personalty (n.) The state of being a person; personality.
Personalty (n.) Personal property, as distinguished from realty or real property.
Personated (imp. & p. p.) of Personate
Personating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Personate
Personate (v. t.) To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
Personate (v. t.) To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.
Personate (v. t.) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
Personate (v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe.
Personate (v. i.) To play or assume a character.
Personate (a.) Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.
Personation (n.) The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another.
Personator (n.) One who personates.
Personeity (n.) Personality.
Personification (n.) The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
Personification (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands.
Personifier (n.) One who personifies.
Personified (imp. & p. p.) of Personify
Personifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Personify
Personify (v. t.) To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.
Personify (v. t.) To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
Personize (v. t.) To personify.
Personnel (n.) The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from materiel.
Perspective (n.) Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.
Perspective (n.) Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective.
Perspective (a.) A glass through which objects are viewed.
Perspective (a.) That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista.
Perspective (a.) The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.
Perspective (a.) The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective.
Perspective (a.) A drawing in linear perspective.
Perspectively (adv.) Optically; as through a glass.
Perspectively (adv.) According to the rules of perspective.
Perspectograph (n.) An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.
Perspectography (n.) The science or art of delineating objects according to the laws of perspective; the theory of perspective.
Perspicable (a.) Discernible.
Perspicacious (a.) Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.
Perspicacious (a.) Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen.
Perspicacity (n.) The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment.
Perspicacy (n.) Perspicacity.
Perspicience (n.) The act of looking sharply.
Perspicil (n.) An optical glass; a telescope.
Perspicuity (n.) The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.
Perspicuity (n.) The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought.
Perspicuity (n.) Sagacity; perspicacity.
Perspicuous (a.) Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.
Perspicuous (a.) Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements.
Perspirability (n.) The quality or state of being perspirable.
Perspirable (a.) Capable of being perspired.
Perspirable (a.) Emitting perspiration; perspiring.
Perspiration (n.) The act or process of perspiring.
Perspiration (n.) That which is excreted through the skin; sweat.
Perspirative (a.) Performing the act of perspiration; perspiratory.
Perspiratory (a.) Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts.