ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Rendered similar, made like to; taken in and appropriated as nourishment.
1797. Bewick, Birds (1847), I. Introd. 20. Screened … by an arrangement of colours happily assimilated to the places which they most frequent.
1848. Carpenter, Anim. Phys., 24. This assimilated fluid has to be conveyed into every part of the body.
