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permeate, v.|ˈpɜːmiːeɪt|
[f. L. permeāt-, ppl. stem of permeāre to pass through, f. per- 1 + meāre to go, pass.]
trans. To pass, spread, or diffuse itself through; to penetrate, pervade, saturate. (Of things material or immaterial.)
1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xvii. 120 Numbers of them [emanations] do always permeate our Air. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iii. i. (1723) 136 This Heat..permeating the Interstices of the Sand, Earth, or other Matter. a1704in Somers Tracts II. 234 All held a vital Principle that doth permeate the whole World. 1801Southey Thalaba v. i, He..felt the coolness permeate every limb. 1875Lyell's Princ. Geol. II. iii. xli. 420 There are marvellously few species which permeate the whole of the archipelagos. 1880T. A. Spalding Eliz. Demonol. 31 This intense credulousness..permeated all classes of society.
b. intr. with through, into, among, etc.: To penetrate, diffuse itself.
1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 211/1 Sublunary invisible Deities, which permeate through the Elements of Matter. 1788T. Taylor Proclus I. 64 The reasons or proportions of abundance and sterility, permeate through all the mathematical disciplines. 1863S. Wilberforce Sp. Missions (1874) 14 Producing its own proper effect upon the heathen among whom it permeates.
Hence ˈpermeating ppl. a.
1664Evelyn Sylva xxx, [To separate] stony particles from that permeating water. 1684Boyle Porousn. Anim. & Solid Bod. iv. 37 The Penetrant, or Permeating Fumes. 1810Southey Kehama vii. v, The permeating light Shed through their substance thin a varying hue. |