Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to assimilate; producing assimilation; assimilative: as, assimilatory organs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation.
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- adjective That tends to
assimilate , or to produceassimilation
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- adjective capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution
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Examples
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And this assimilatory process was racialized from its inception because no blacks and few Asians were permitted to take part, in the sense that they were excluded from regiments defined as white.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Industrialization, she believed, was an essential goal and accomplishment, to the extent that it must be achieved even if it does not follow the path of Jewish national consolidation, and indeed regardless of the assimilatory effects it may have upon Jews.
Esther Frumkin. 2009
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It is also assimilatory, since ritual and spiritual traditions developed by women are seen as inferior and unworthy of perpetuation.
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At the same time, she often warned of the threat to Jewish continuity posed by the assimilatory pressures and temptations of French culture.
Julienne Bloch. 2009
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Yet the integration of Christian elements into the eighteenth-century versions of these books may reflect the assimilatory process undergone by Jews, especially in Germany.
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Jasmine, the assimilatory power in Angel, requirestheloss of two human lives to enter the world.
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Within the context of both narratives, the heroes are justified for several reasons: there is no freedomto reject the change; hostility is shown to outsiders; deathsare accepted as part of the process; and in each instance, the alien/assimilatory claim that those changed are still fundamentally human is challenged by the emergence of a hive-mind, not quiteon par with, say,the Borg, but nonetheless profoundly different to the usual human experience.
Aliens, Dogs & Human Nature « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008
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In this respect, theexecution is strongly reminiscent ofthe main plot-arc of Angel, Season Four,which culminates, in the penultimate episode Peace Out, in an almost identical scenario:a declaration of world peace after an alien, assimilatory force takes control on a global scale, followed by thesuccessfulapplication of a vanquishing panacea.
Aliens, Dogs & Human Nature « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008
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Within the context of both narratives, the heroes are justified for several reasons: there is no freedomto reject the change; hostility is shown to outsiders; deathsare accepted as part of the process; and in each instance, the alien/assimilatory claim that those changed are still fundamentally human is challenged by the emergence of a hive-mind, not quiteon par with, say,the Borg, but nonetheless profoundly different to the usual human experience.
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In this respect, theexecution is strongly reminiscent ofthe main plot-arc of Angel, Season Four,which culminates, in the penultimate episode Peace Out, in an almost identical scenario:a declaration of world peace after an alien, assimilatory force takes control on a global scale, followed by thesuccessfulapplication of a vanquishing panacea.
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