assimilate ness

[Eng. a imilate; -ne .] The quality of being similar to; likene . (Johnson.) as-sim-il-a-ting, pr . par . [ASSIMILATE, V.] as-sim-il-ā-tion, s. [In Dan. & Fr. a imila tion; Port. a imilação ; Ital. a i mil azione ; Lat. a imulatio = likene , similarity.] 1. Ordinary Language: The act or proce of a imilating, i.e. , of making one being, person, or thing similar to another; the state of being so a imilated. "It is as well the instinct as duty of our nature to aspire to an a imilation with God, even the most laudable and generous ambition."-Decay of Piety . 2. Animal and Vegetable Physiol. The proce by which an animal or a plant converts into textures, identical with its own, such foreign molecules as are fitted for its nutriment. (See Glo ary to Owen's Comparative Anatomy of the Invertebrate Animals , 2nd ed., 1855, p. 669.) "These two proce es, excretion, or the expulsion of effete particles, and a imilatio 1 a imilation of substances from without, are nece arily mutually dependent,"-Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat . , vol. i.; Introd., p. 12. as-sim-il-a-tive, adj. [Eng. a imilate; suff. -ive.] A imilating; having the power of a imilating. "... an attractive, a retentive, an a imilative , and an expulsive virtue."- Hake will : Apology , p. 5.