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The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. Sir

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The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. Sir T. Browne. Note: The term assimilation has been limited by some to the final process by which the nutritive matter of the blood is converted into the substance of the tissues and organs. (more info) 1. The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel.

Related words: (words related to ASSIMILATION)

• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• CONVERSIVE
  1. Capable of being converted or changed. 2. Ready to converse; social. Feltham.
• CONVERSANCY
  Conversance
• VENTILATION
  1. The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air. Insuring, for the laboring man, better
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• CONVERSABLY
  In a conversable manner.
• CONVERSABLE
  Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse. While young, humane, conversable, and kind. Cowper.
• SOLIDUNGULATE
  See SOLIPED
• FLUID
  Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
• SOLIDATE
  To make solid or firm. Cowley.
• REPAIR
  fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and 1. To return. I thought . . . that he repaire should again. Chaucer. 2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort;
• CONVERSION
  An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse. Or bring my action of conversion And trover for my goods. Hudibras. (more info) 1. The act of turning or changing
• SOLIDLY
  In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.
• FLUIDAL
  Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. Fluidal structure , the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; --
• SOLIDISM
  The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.
• REPAIRABLE
  Reparable. Gauden.
• PRESERVATIVE
  Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• PRESERVABLE
  Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.
• CONVERSELY
  In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J. S. Mill.
• REABSORPTION
  The act or process of rearbsorbing.
• CONSOLIDATED
  Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)
• CONSOLIDATION
  To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the
• EVENTILATION
  The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• DISREPAIR
  A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.
• INCONVERSANT
  Not conversant; not acquainted; not versed; unfamiliar.