assimulate

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/əˈsɪmjʊleɪt/

verb

To assimilate.

OriginLatin assimulatus →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person assimulates · participle present assimulating · participle past assimulated · past assimulated

  1. obsoleteTo 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 Principle

    1684, Matthew Hale, A Discourse of Religion
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    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. obsoleteTo feign; to counterfeit; to simulate.

    assimulate the Assassination

    1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

Origin

  1. Latinassimulatus
  2. Englishassimulate

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

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APA

assimulate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assimulate

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Chicago

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