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Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.

p, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant. J. Peile.

Unremitting; assiduous. [Obs.] "Assiduate labor." Fabyan.

ng to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between. Sir M. Hale. To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. Cowper.

To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble. [Obs.] Blount.

To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with .

Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. Associated movements (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison.

The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.

To correspond in sound.

To bring into subjection. [Obs.] Shak.

Estate; state. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.

To assent. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A worshiper of the stars. Morley.

To corrupt; to defile; to contaminate. [Obs.] Blount.

Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted. Hope must be . . . attemperate to the promise. Hammond.

Any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge.

To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.