assonate, v.
(ˈæsəneɪt)
[f. L. assonāt- ppl. stem of assonāre: see assonance and -ate.]
To correspond in sound, esp. in vowel-sound; to rime in assonance.
| [1623 Cockeram, Assonate, to sound or ring like a bell.] 1656 Blount Glossogr., Assonate, to sound together, to answer by sound. 1879 H. Nicol in Encycl. Brit. IX. 633 The accented vowels being those which rhyme or assonate. 1880 ― in Academy 24 July 57/3 Such a metre..is assonating heroic verse. 1952 R. Campbell Lorca 40 We could assonate the word ‘filbert’ with it [sc. ‘winter’]. 1966 Bennett & Smithers Early ME. Verse & Prose 291, [rð] and [rd] do not commonly assonate in ME texts. |