assimulate

English

Etymology

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “assimulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

assimulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of assimulō