assort
verbUK /əˈsɔːt/ · US /əˈsɔɹt/
Etymology Middle French assortir.
1
To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.
- They appear […] no way assorted to those with whom they must associate.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
2
To be of a kind with, to harmonise or match.
- She wore a peruke of very fair golden hair; and herein was shown the lurking spirit of female vanity: her own tresses had been very beautiful; in some whim she had had them shaven off, but the colour of the peruke had been most assiduously assorted to them.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 217:
3
To be associated with; to consort with.
4
To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods.
- to assort a cargo
- Derived terms
- assortation, assortative, assorter, assortment, ill-assorted, reassort