Word Meanings - ASSIMULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble. Blount. 2. To assimilate. Sir M. Hale.

Related words: (words related to ASSIMULATE)

• SIMULATE
  Feigned; pretended. Bale. (more info) akin to simul at the same time, together, similis like. See Similar,
• FEIGNED
  Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. "A feigned friend." Shak. Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Ps. xvii. 1. -- Feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Feign"ed*ness, n. Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned
• ASSIMILATE
  similare to make like, similis like. See Similar, Assemble, 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
• COUNTERFEITLY
  By forgery; falsely.
• FEIGNING
  That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false. -- Feign"ing*ly, adv.
• FEIGNER
  One who feigns or pretends.
• COUNTERFEIT
  contrefaire to counterfeit; contre + faire to make, fr. 1. Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed. Look here upon this picture, and on this-The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. Shak. 2.
• FEIGN
  figura figure,and E. dough. See Dough, and cf. Figure, Faint, Effigy, 1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true. There are no such things done as
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• COUNTERFEITER
  1. One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger. The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters. Camden. 2. One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• DISSIMULATE
  Feigning; simulating; pretending. Henryson.
• REASSIMILATE
  To assimilate again. -- Re`as*sim`i*la"tion, n.
• UNFEIGNED
  Not feigned; not counterfeit; not hypocritical; real; sincere; genuine; as, unfeigned piety; unfeigned love to man. "Good faith unfeigned." Chaucer. -- Un*feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*feign"ed*ness, n.
• ASSIMULATE
  1. To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble. Blount. 2. To assimilate. Sir M. Hale.
• MISFEIGN
  To feign with an evil design. Spenser.
• INSIMULATE
  To accuse. Donne.
• DISASSIMILATE
  To subject to disassimilation.