assimulate
verb/əˈsɪmjʊleɪt/
Etymology From Latin assimulatus, past participle of assimulare, equivalent to assimilare. See assimilate.
1
Obsolete To assimilate.
- 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 Principle1684, Matthew Hale, A Discourse of Religion:
- 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[…]1857, Andrew Jackson Davis, The great harmonia: Volume 4, page 54:
2
Obsolete To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate.
- assimulate the Assassination1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
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