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assimilative, a.|əˈsɪmɪleɪtɪv|
Also 6–7 -ulative.
[a. F. assimilatif, -ive, ad. late L. assimilātīv-us: see assimilate v. and -ive.]
1. a. Of, characterized by, or tending to assimilation.
1528Paynell Salerne Regim. 2 C j b, Ruddy fleshe wytnesseth fortitude of vertue assimilative. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chem. 66 The fifth or last digestion, viz. the assimilative ferment of the solid parts of the body. 1846H. Rogers Ess. (1860) I. 170 He made the contents of books his own by..the powerful assimilative processes of his own intellect.
b. spec. in Philol. (cf. assimilation 1 b).
1936Language XII. 246 In consonantal clusters it is common to find that the posterior consonant exerts an assimilative influence upon the preceding. 1946E. A. Nida Morphology ii. 29 If assimilative changes are quite extensive in some pattern of the language, the related sets are frequently described as ‘vocalic harmony’.
2. That may be or has been assimilated.
1837Southw. Smith Philos. Health II. x. 160 To this crude sap..sugar and mucus, assimilative substances, are super⁓added. 1847in Craig. |