Essentiate vs Assimilate - What's the difference?
essentiate | assimilate |
To become assimilated
To form or constitute the essence or being of.
* 1662 , , Book I, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 21:
To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
* Isaac Newton
To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind.
* Merivale
To absorb a group of people into a community.
To compare a thing to something similar.
To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
* John Bright
* Cowper
As verbs the difference between essentiate and assimilate
is that essentiate is to become assimilated while assimilate is to incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.essentiate
English
Verb
(essentiat)- "That a number of Self-essentiated Deities plainly takes away the Being of the true God."
- (Boyle)
assimilate
English
Verb
(assimilat)- Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
- Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment.
- The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.
- His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.
- The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.
- to assimilate our law to the law of Scotland
- Fast falls a fleecy shower; the downy flakes / Assimilate all objects.