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1. The written history of a person's life. 2. Biographical writings in general.

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  • PERSONNEL
    The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
  • PERSONIFICATION
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
  • GENERALIZED
    Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
  • GENERALIZABLE
    Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
  • PERSONIZE
    To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
  • PERSONATE
    To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
  • GENERALTY
    Generality. Sir M. Hale.
  • PERSONATOR
    One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
  • PERSONAL
    Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
  • PERSONIFY
    1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
  • PERSONIFIER
    One who personifies.
  • GENERALITY
    1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from
  • GENERALISSIMO
    The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.
  • PERSONA
    See 8
  • PERSONABLE
    1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E.
  • GENERALLY
    1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a
  • PERSONALLY
    1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually;
  • GENERALIZE
    1. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the
  • GENERALIZATION
    1. The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. Sir W. Hamilton. 2.
  • WRITTEN
    p. p. of Write, v.
  • MAJOR GENERAL
    . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
  • UNIPERSONAL
    Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
  • UNIPERSONALIST
    One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.
  • TRIPERSONALITY
    The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
  • IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
    The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
  • POSTMASTER-GENERAL
    The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.
  • AUTOBIOGRAPHIC; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
    Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch. "Such traits of the autobiographic sort." Carlyle. -- Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • TRIPERSONAL
    Consisting of three persons. Milton.
  • MONOPERSONAL
    Having but one person, or form of existence.
  • IMPERSONATOR
    One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.

 

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