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pervade, v.|pəˈveɪd|
[ad. L. pervādĕre to go or come through, pass or spread through, f. per- 1 + vādĕre to go, walk.]
1. trans. To pass through; to flow or extend through; to traverse. Now rare.
1656Blount Glossogr., Pervade, to go and enter over all, thorow or into; to scape or pass through or by. 1725Pope Odyss. xxiv. 18 So cowering fled the sable heaps of ghosts,..And now pervade the dusky land of dreams. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Greece (1825) II. 192 A cave in Paphlagonia... It was long and wide and pervaded by cold water, clear as crystal. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. (1871) II. 122 Mr. Powers and I pervaded the whole universe. 1892A. K. H. Boyd 25 Yrs. St. Andrews II. xvii. 54, I pervaded Westminster Hall and looked into most of the Courts.
2. To extend or diffuse itself throughout; to spread through or into every part of; to permeate, saturate. (Of things material and immaterial.)
1659H. More Immort. Soul ii. xv. §5. 274 There is a vitall Aire that pervades all this lower world. 1704Newton Optics ii. iii. iii. Substances soaked in such liquors as will intimately pervade their little pores, become by that means more transparent than otherwise. 1791Hamilton Berthollet's Dyeing I. Translator's Pref., An ardent spirit of enquiry pervaded..Europe. 1876Gladstone Homeric Synchr. 102 That powerful sentiment of nationality, which pervades the Poems.
b. intr. To diffuse itself, permeate. Now rare.
1653H. More Antid. Ath. (1662) 153 Here union pervades through all. 1796E. Parsons Myst. Warning IV. 186 A general air of concern pervaded through the whole party. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 105 In England, the manners, habits and dress of the capital, pervade to the remotest angle of the kingdom. 1889Geikie in Nature 19 Sept. 492/1 We find certain well-defined principles, or one may term them natural laws, pervading everywhere.
Hence perˈvadence, the action of pervading; perˈvader, one who or that which pervades.
1838G. S. Faber Inquiry 580 A pervadence of the world both universal and complete. 1883Monier-Williams Relig. Th. Ind. ii. 39 Fire [according to Indian laws of thought] is the pervader, smoke the pervaded. Ibid. 46 Vishnu..his function is that of a divine Pervader, infusing his Essence..into created things, animate and inanimate. |