n. The act of personifying; specifically, in rhetoric, a figure of speech, or a species of metaphor, which consists in representing inanimate objects or abstract notions as endued with life and action, or possessing the attributes of living beings; prosopopœia: as, “the floods clap their hands,” “the sun rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race” “the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing,”etc.n. Embodiment; impersonation.n. In art, the representation in the form of a person of something abstract, as a virtue or vice, or of an aggregation, as a race or nation, a body of doctrines, etc.