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Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. Hugh Miller.

An associate; a confederate or partner in any scheme. How Pennsylvania's air agrees with Quakers, And Carolina's with associators. Dryden.

To set free; to release. [Archaic] Till from her hands the spright assoiled is. Spenser.

Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.

To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court. God assoilzie him for the sin of bloodshed. Sir W. Scott.

Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of Steevens.

Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.

Assonant.

To correspond in sound.

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods.

Selected; culled.

Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.

To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate. [Obs.] Some ecstasy assotted had his sense. Spenser.

To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assu…

Mitigation; abatement.

One who, or that which, assuages.

Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing. [R.] Music her soft assuasive voice applies. Pope.

To bring into subjection. [Obs.] Shak.

being accustomed; habituation. [Obs.] Custom and studies efform the soul like wax, and by assuefaction introduce a nature. Jer. Taylor.

Accustomedness; habit; habitual use. Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt. Bacon.