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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Assimilate \As*sim"i*late\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Assimilated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assimilating}.] [L. assimilatus, p. p. of assimilare; ad + similare to make like, similis like. See {Similar}, {Assemble}, {Assimilate}.]
1. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between. --Sir M. Hale.
To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. --John Bright.
Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. --Cowper.
2. To liken; to compa?e. [R.]
3. To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment. --Sir I. Newton.
His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons. --Merivale.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "assimilated": Americanized, Anglicized, accented, acculturated, acculturized, adopted, alveolar, amalgamated, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, back, barytone, bilabial, blended, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, changed, checked, close, combinative, combinatory, combined, conjoint, conjugate, conjunctive, connective, consolidated, consonant, consonantal, continuant, converted, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, eclectic, flat, front, fused, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, incorporated, indoctrinated, integrated, intonated, joined, joint, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, merged, mid, mixed, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, naturalized, occlusive, one, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, reborn, redeemed, reformed, regenerated, renewed, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syncretistic, syncretized, synthesized, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transformed, twangy, unaccented, united, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide
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