personning

Verb

person (third-person singular simple present persons, present participle personing or personning, simple past and past participle personed or personned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
   • Or let us perſon him like ſome wretched itinerary Judge, […]1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], “That ’’Beza’’’s opinion of regulating sinne by a politick law, cannot be sound”, in The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book II...
2. (gender-neutral, transitive) To man, to supply with staff or crew.
   • “Okay. Soon as Natalie heard, and while she was flailing around trying to turn up a Valium, she decided she had better call Scott Harrison and ask his opinion on what sort of advice, re legal moves, she ought to call back to Iréné, or Rama, or Wilkerson, or whoever’s personning the fort back...1981, John Nichols, “Sunday”, in The Nirvana Blues, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published May 1983, page 89

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