assimilatory

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That assimilatory urge is present in every activity from coarse ingestion as food to the moral metabolism of the hermit-saint who would influence others to do as he.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

This assimilatory change was regular, i.e., every accented long o followed by an i in the following syllable automatically developed to long ö; hence tothi “teeth” became töthi, fodian “to feed” became födian.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

Finally, various slugs and snails cause much injury by devouring young leaves and buds and diminishing the assimilatory area.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

Is it the cell rather than the organism that is the immediate agent of assimilatory processes?

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

It is the solar plexus which controls the assimilatory function in digestion.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)