assimulate

English

Etymology

From Latin assimulatus, past participle of assimulare, equivalent to assimilare. See assimilate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈsɪmjʊleɪt/

Verb

assimulate (third-person singular simple present assimulates, present participle assimulating, simple past and past participle assimulated)

  1. (obsolete) To assimilate.
    • 1684, Matthew Hale, A Discourse of Religion:
      So that small and little vital Principle of the Fear of God doth gradually and yet suddenly assimulate the actions of our life flowing from another Principle
    • 1857, Andrew Jackson Davis, The great harmonia: Volume 4, page 54:
      You will remember the exact analogy — that trees grow by attracting and assimulating to themselves the terrestrial atmosphere which is thrown from all the planets []
  2. (obsolete) To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate.
    • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
      assimulate the Assassination

References

Latin

Verb

assimulāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of assimulō