v. [f. L. assonāt- ppl. stem of assonāre: see ASSONANCE and -ATE.] To correspond in sound, esp. in vowel-sound; to rhyme in assonance.
[1623. Cockeram, Assonate, to sound or ring like a bell.]
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Assonate, to sound together, to answer by sound.
1879. H. Nicol, in Encycl. Brit., IX. 633. The accented vowels being those which rhyme or assonate. Ibid. (1880), in Academy, 24 July, 57/3. Such a metre … is assonating heroic verse.
