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Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced. There is a difference between assertion and demonstration. Macaulay.

A sitting beside or near.

The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.

Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch.

The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland.

blance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel.

Assimilation. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle.

Of or pertaining to association, or to an association.

The doctrine or theory held by associationists.

One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.

Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of Steevens.

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

Assonant.

To correspond in sound.

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

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The assumption of authority. Whewell.

The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto- mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures.

Stipulation; agreement. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.