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assimilative

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as·sim·i·la·tive  (-sm-ltv) also as·sim·i·la·to·ry (-l-tôr, -tr)
adj.
Marked by or causing assimilation.
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Adj.1.assimilative - capable of mentally absorbing ; "assimilative processes", "assimilative capacity of the human mind"
receptive, open - ready or willing to receive favorably; "receptive to the proposals"
2.assimilative - capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution; "an assimilative substance
assimilating, assimilatory
absorbent, absorptive - having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.); "as absorbent as a sponge"


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It is one of the bitterest apportionments of a lot of slavery, that the negro, sympathetic and assimilative, after acquiring, in a refined family, the tastes and feelings which form the atmosphere of such a place, is not the less liable to become the bond-slave of the coarsest and most brutal,--just as a chair or table, which once decorated the superb saloon, comes, at last, battered and defaced, to the barroom of some filthy tavern, or some low haunt of vulgar debauchery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
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