Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Personify

Personify , transitive verb

[Person + -fy: compare French personnifier.]

1.
To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.
The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. — Chesterfield
2.
To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.