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assonate, v.|ˈæsəneɪt|
[f. L. assonāt- ppl. stem of assonāre: see assonance and -ate.]
To correspond in sound, esp. in vowel-sound; to rime in assonance.
[1623Cockeram, Assonate, to sound or ring like a bell.] 1656Blount Glossogr., Assonate, to sound together, to answer by sound. 1879H. Nicol in Encycl. Brit. IX. 633 The accented vowels being those which rhyme or assonate. 1880― in Academy 24 July 57/3 Such a metre..is assonating heroic verse. 1952R. Campbell Lorca 40 We could assonate the word ‘filbert’ with it [sc. ‘winter’]. 1966Bennett & Smithers Early ME. Verse & Prose 291, [rð] and [rd] do not commonly assonate in ME texts. |