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Webster 1913 Edition

Assimulate

As-sim′u-late

,
Verb.
T.
[L.
assimulatus
, p. p. of
assimulare
, equiv. to
assimilare
. See
Assimilate
,
Verb.
T.
]
1.
To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble.
[Obs.]
Blount.
2.
To assimilate.
[Obs.]
Sir M. Hale.

Webster 1828 Edition

Assimulate

ASSIM'ULATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. assimulo.] To feign. [Not used. See simulate.]

Definition 2024

assimulate

assimulate

English

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To assimilate.
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    • 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.
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Latin

Verb

assimulāte

  1. first-person plural present active imperative of assimulō

Etymology

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

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