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PERSON

Volume 3 · 73 words · 1771 Edition

an individual substance of a rational or intelligent nature. Thus we say, an ambassador represents the person of his prince; and that, in law, the father and son are reputed the same person.

in grammar, a term applied to such nouns or pronouns, as, being either prefixed or understood, are the nominatives in all inflections of a verb; or it is the agent or patient in all finite and personal verbs. See Grammar.