assimilate

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  1. transitive verb Physiology To consume and incorporate (nutrients) into the body after digestion.
  2. transitive verb Physiology To transform (food) into living tissue by the process of anabolism; metabolize constructively.
  3. transitive verb To incorporate and absorb into the mind: assimilate knowledge.
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  • The only requirement has been that the poet should assimilate, and not merely agglomerate his acceptances, that he should as Vergil put it, “wrest the club from Hercules” and wield it as its master. —  Vergil
  • The historical scholar Seymour Lipset put it this way, "The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension and tragedy." —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • He disliked the failure of the Germans to assimilate -- they had their own language, religion and customs, and showed no interest in becoming like Englishmen or in joining the militia. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • When terrorists easily assimilated prior to 9-11 there were FBI reports about them that Washington DC wasn't able to assimilate, although its former director has assimilated well as hired attorney for Prince Bandar. —  Consortiumnews.com
  • But now your purified love discerns and desires, your will is set towards, something which thought cannot really assimilate--still less explain. —  Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People
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assimilate:   assimilating ·  assimilated
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  1. Middle English assimilaten, from Latin assimilāre, assimilāt-, to make similar to : ad-, ad- + similis, like; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin assimilatus, past participle of assimilare, adsimilare, mixed with assimulare, adsimulare, make alike, compare, more frequently imitate, feign, simulate; from ad, to, + similis, like (related to simul, together): see simulate, similar. To an erroneous supposition that the ancients used assimilare for the sense ‘make like,’ and assimulare for the sense ‘counterfeit,’ is due the existence of the corresponding English forms assimilate and assimulate, with the same distinction of sense: see assimulate. Cf. assemble, also ult. from Latin assimilare.
 

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/əˈsɪmɪleɪt/
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