英和和英

発音

• IPA: /əˈsɪmjʊleɪt/

動詞

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

関連する語

• assimulation

参照

• “assimulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.