person
suomi-englanti sanakirjaperson englannista suomeksi
henki, henkilö
vaatteissaan
persoona
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person englanniksi
An individual substance of a rational nature; usually a being. (defdate)
1784, William Jones, ''The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c.'', PREFACE
- THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of the firſt diſtinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ſeveral new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and diſtinguiſh it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp)”
(ux)
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.
(RQ:Bacon Henry 7)his firſt appearance vpon the ''Stage'', in his new perſon of a ''Sycophant'' or ''Iugler''(..)
1664, (w), ''Of the Love of Christ to his Disciples''
- How different (..)is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate, and (..)that of a friend!
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)to beare rule, which was thy part / And perſon, had’ſt thou known thy ſelf aright.
(RQ:Taylor Eniautos)
Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Spirit.
1892, (w), ''of Common Prayer (1892)/The Litanie|The Litanie''
- three persons and one God
Any sentient or socially intelligent being.
Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing). (defdate)
(ux)
A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with ''man'' or ''woman'').
A worker in a specified function or specialty.
The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc. (defdate)
(RQ:Burton Melancholy)when the young Ladies laughed at her for it, ſhe replied that it was not his perſon that ſhe did embrace and reverence, but the divine beauty of his Soule.
(RQ:James Maisie).
1978, (w), ''Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (qualifier), page 418:
- At first blush it seemed that what was striking about him rested on the fact that his dress was exotic, his person foreign.
2004, ''(w)'':
- Meanwhile, the dazed Sullivan, dressed like a bum with no identification on his person, is arrested and put to work on a brutal Southern chain gang.
Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts. (defdate)
1824, (w) (5 Geo. 4. c. 83, United Kingdom), section 4:
- Every Person wilfully, openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his Person in any Street, Road, or public Highway, or in the View thereof, or in any Place of public Resort, with Intent to insult any Female ... and being subsequently convicted of the Offence for which he or she shall have been so apprehended, shall be deemed a Rogue and Vagabond, within the true Intent and Meaning of this Act ...
A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom they are speaking. See person. (defdate)
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(defdate).
1884, (w), "Morphology", in ''(w)'' Volume 16
- True corms, composed of united personae (..) usually arise by gemmation, (..) yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons.
1836, (w), quoted in Clare Jerrold, ''The Early Court of Queen Victoria (New York: Putnam, 1912), at p. 97:
- I trust in God that my life may be spared for nine months longer, after which period, in the event of my death, no Regency would take place. I should then have the satisfaction of leaving the Royal authority to the personal exercise of that young lady future Queen Victoria, the heiress presumptive to the Crown, and not in the hands of a person now near me Victoria's mother, who is surrounded by evil advisers and who is herself incompetent to act with propriety in the station in which she would be placed. I have no hesitation in saying that I have been insulted, grossly insulted by that person, but I am determined to endure no longer a course of behaviour so disrespectful to me.
To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
*(RQ:Milton Divorce)
To man, to supply with staff or crew.
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(l)
(eo-form of)
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(l), individual
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a (l)
An individual with rights and responsibilities under the law.
An individual or formal organisation with standing before the courts.
In fiction, any sentient or socially intelligent being.
a being
an individual
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