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Assimilative   Listen
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Assimilative  adj.  Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Assimilative" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Mediterranean and established in Algeria an important vineyard. This double current of immigration notably increased the French population of North Africa. The tendency then was to treat Algeria as a piece of France. This assimilative policy attained its culminating point in the so-called decrees of rattachement (1881), in pursuance of which each ministerial department in France was made responsible for Algerine affairs which came by their nature within its ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... of those assimilative intellects which extract by glances the substance from a book as the flash of lightning demagnetizes the lodestone. Her acquisitions were consequently immense. Though very yielding in the grasp of the mighty thinkers whom she encountered, yet she read them in the spirit ...
— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller

... disease remains a mystery. No fungous or other parasite can be detected in the earliest stages. The appearance of the trees leads us to infer that the trouble is internal, due to some derangement of the nutritive or assimilative functions of the plant, but we are unable to correlate this with any corresponding external conditions. That is to say, that so many cases have been observed on fertile soil, when cultivation, drainage and plant food had all been provided, that it is impossible ...
— The Pecan and its Culture • H. Harold Hume

... pedagogic eye. In one book which I remember reading there were sixteen different types of apperception discriminated from each other. There was associative apperception, subsumptive apperception, assimilative apperception, and others up to sixteen. It is needless to say that this is nothing but an exhibition of the crass artificiality which has always haunted psychology, and which perpetuates itself by lingering along, especially in these works ...
— Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals • William James



Words linked to "Assimilative" :   assimilatory, absorbent, receptive, open, assimilating



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