Verb

(assimilat)

To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.

Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.

* Isaac Newton

Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment.

To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind.

The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.

* Merivale

His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.

To absorb a group of people into a community.

The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.

To compare a thing to something similar.

To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

* John Bright

to assimilate our law to the law of Scotland

* Cowper

Fast falls a fleecy shower; the downy flakes / Assimilate all objects.

Verb

(acquir)

To get.

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own, as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

* (Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)

No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step.

* (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)

Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.

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