v. Obs. Also 6 -ule. [a. F. assimile-r (16th c. in Littré), ad. L. assimilāre to liken, f. ad- to + similis like.] To make like, to liken; to resemble. Earlier by-form of ASSIMILATE.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, 32. By it he is assimiled to the immortall God.
1548. Recorde, Urin. Physick, xi. (1651), 100. Horn white … hath his name of the thing that it assimuleth most.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., II. 49. To be compared and assimiled to the husbandman.
