2. To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a
part of the substance of the assimilating body.
Aliment easily assimilated or turned into blood.
--Arbuthnot.
3. To be converted into the substance of the assimilating
body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food
assimilate more readily than others.
I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with
the church of England. --J. H.
Newman.
To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. --John
Bright.
Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all
objects. --Cowper.
3. To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the
substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or
appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and
converted into organic tissue.
Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate
their nourishment. --Sir I.
Newton.
His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.
--Merivale.