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)
- (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 […]
- (obsolete) To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
- assimulate the Assassination
Related terms
References
- “assimulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Verb
assimulāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of assimulō