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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Assimilate \As*sim"i*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assimilated};
p. pr & vb n. {Assimilating}.] [L. assimilatus p. p. of
assimilare ad + similare to make like similis like See
{Similar}, {Assemble}, {Assimilate}.]
1. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a
resemblance between. --Sir M. Hale.
To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. --John
Bright.
Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all
objects. --Cowper.
2. To liken; to compa?e. [R.]
3. To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the
substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or
appropriate, as nourishment; as food is assimilated and
converted into organic tissue.
Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate
their nourishment. --Sir I.
Newton.
His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.
--Merivale.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
assimilating
adj : tending to or characterized by or causing assimilation
(being absorbed into or incorporated); "an assimilative
pattern"; "an assimilative process" [syn: {assimilative},
{assimilatory}]
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