personify

verb ! Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about personify at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

1. Invest with or as with a body; give body to.
2. Represent, as of a character on stage.

   Derek Jacobi was Hamlet

3. Attribute human qualities to something.

   The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous