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pervious, a.|ˈpɜːvɪəs|
[f. L. pervi-us that has a way or passage through (f. per- 1 + via way) + -ous; in It. pervio.]
1. Allowing of passage through; passable; affording passage or entrance; lying open (to).
a1631Donne Obseq. Ld. Harrington's Bro. 6 If looking up to God; or down to us, Thou finde that any way is pervious, 'Twixt heav'n and earth. 1659Stanley Hist. Philos. xi. (1701) 466/2 Every Country is pervious to a wise Man; for the whole World is the Country of a wise Soul. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 1056 The bolted Valves are pervious to her flight. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. lviii. (1869) III. 445 So large a circuit must have yielded many pervious points. 1859Masson Brit. Novelists iii. 172 A time when the Highlands were much less pervious..to Lowland tourists.
b. esp. Allowing of passage through its substance; permeable.
1627May Lucan iv. (1631) 5 Make the strooke earth to deluge pervious. 1661Boyle Examen iii. (1682) 24 Glass also is pervious to the Air. 1779Cowper Pineapple & Bee 10 The frame was tight, And only pervious to the light. 1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 22 A coarse argillaceous gravel pervious to water. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) I. ii. 40 Melloni..found crystals of sulphur to be highly pervious to radiant heat.
c. fig. (a) That can be penetrated by the mental sight; fully intelligible, ‘transparent’. (b) Of a person or the mind: Accessible to influence or argument.
a1614Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 98 In exposition of places of Scripture, which he alwaies makes so liquid, and pervious. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 307 Sees all things from top to bottom, as pervious and transparent. 1867Emerson May-Day, etc. Wks. (Bohn) III. 480 The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love. 1902Scotsman 17 Jan. 4/6 The Boer mind..pervious to reason and the logic of facts.
d. Zool. and Bot. Open, patent, patulous: opposed to impervious.
1806J. Galpine Brit. Bot. 14* Primula... Cor. throat pervious, tube cylindrical. 1874Coues Birds N.W. 373 The nostrils are very large and pervious, whereas those of the true Vultures are separated by an impervious septum.
2. Having the quality of passing through, penetrating, or permeating; pervasive. Now rare.
1684Contempl. St. Man ii. v. (1699) 180 They [bodies of saints] have an agility to move from place to place,..like light; to have their way free and pervious through all places, and can penetrate wheresoever they please. 1718Prior Solomon iii. 622 What is this little agile, pervious Fire, This flutt'ring motion, which we call the mind? a1849H. Coleridge Poems (1850) II. 344 His mortal clay Abolish'd quite, or blent with pervious air. |