personator

It is pleasant to remember that nobody had charged him with fraudulent purposes or looked down on him as a charlatan; but apart from that he was supposed to be all sorts of things: a clever screen, a mere device, a "personator," a familiar spirit, a whispering "dæmon."

Notes on My Books Joseph Conrad 1890

I'd also like to see an Obama personator say things like "my bowling looks like Special Olympics" and "the police acted stupidly" and after each quip, a Biden impersonator says "This is a big F ... ing deal". jay

Fey likely to revive Palin impersonation 2010

I will not dispute your intuition theory, since your last words assure me that I do not fall so far short of your imaginary 'C,' as did my personator.

Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer

How completely is it here fulfilled! for when we discover that the personator of Henrico is meant for an Adonis, we _are_ astonished.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various

Anything to arouse this personator of our human mutability, this vacillator between doing and letting alone!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

The personator of this god in the ceremonies assumes the additional character of a clown and as such creates much merriment in the dances in which he appears.

The North American Indian Edward S. Curtis 1910

Then came a personator of Columbus, on horseback, surrounded by woodsmen with axes, —the axe being pre-eminently the tool and weapon of the American pioneer.

XI. The Federalist City. 1783-1800. 1906

The personator of this youth was a man an inch and a half or two inches taller, and weighing five-and-twenty stone.

The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins Brampton, Henry H 1904

The probabilities were all against the personator being Godfrey Bellingham.

The Eye of Osiris 1902

The strange disappearance ceases to be strange, for a personator would necessarily make off before Mr. Hurst should arrive and discover the imposture.

The Eye of Osiris 1902