His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler. Bacon.

No man can long put on a person and act a part. Jer. Taylor.

To bear rule, which was thy part
And person, hadst thou known thyself aright. Milton.

How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend! South.

A fair persone, and strong, and young of age. Chaucer.

If it assume my noble father's person. Shak.

Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. Milton.

Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection. Locke.

* A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is said to be in the first person; when representing what is spoken to, in the second person; when representing what is spoken of, in the third person.

True corms, composed of united personæ . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons. Encyc. Brit.

Artificial, or Fictitious, person (Law), a corporation or body politic. blackstone. -- Natural person (Law), a man, woman, or child, in distinction from a corporation. -- In person, by one's self; with bodily presence; not by representative. "The king himself in person is set forth." Shak. -- In the person of, in the place of; acting for. Shak.