penetratev.

Brit.

/ˈpɛnᵻtreɪt/, U.S.

/ˈpɛnəˌtreɪt/

Forms: 1500s penytrayt, 1500s–1600s (1900s– archaic) penetrate (past participle), 1500s– penetrate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin penetrāt-, penetrāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin penetrāt-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix³) of penetrāre to get into, to get or have insight into, to affect or influence < penitus interior, inmost, to the inmost recesses (see penitissim adj.), after intrāre to enter, beside intus within. Compare Middle French, French pénétrer to enter into, pierce (1314 in Old French in medical use), to attain knowledge (1451), to touch the heart or feelings (c1485). Compare slightly later penetre v.The word is cited as a recent but already well-established loan from Latin in the following:1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. iv. 122 Also ye finde these words, penetrate, penetrable, indignitie, which I cannot see how we may spare them, whatsoeuer fault wee finde with Ink-horne termes: for our speach wanteth wordes to such sence so well to be vsed. The past participle form penetrate is after classical Latin penetrātus, past participle of penetrāre.

a. transitive. To get into or through, gain entrance or access to, esp. with force, effort, or difficulty; to pierce. Also in extended use: to bring light into or see through (darkness, fog, something opaque, etc.).In quot. ?1541: to implant or insert.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > penetrate

thirlc1175

delve?c1225

piercec1325

entera1500

penetrate1530

search1594

job1603

breaka1616

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > reaching a point or place > reach a point or place [verb (intransitive)]

overtakec1225

covera1375

accede1465

penetrate1530

to get through1589

pervene1589

reach1591

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > reaching a point or place > reach (a point or place) [verb (transitive)] > gain access to

penetrate1530

access1978

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 655/2 I penetrate, I perce or thrill thorowe a thyng, je penetre,..and je tresperce.

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Civ^v The synewes be nat penetrate but in y^e teth [L. ad dentes vero implantari videntur].

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. lvj With out resistence [we] haue penetrate the ample region..of Wales.

1610 A. Willet Hexapla in Danielem 282 One bodie doth not penetrate or pierce another.

1703 M. Chudleigh Songs of Three Children in Poems Several Occasions 49 So vast their Numbers, no one Ray of Light Cou'd penetrate the Shades of that black horrid Night.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iii. 142 The country in the neighbourhood was so grown up with wood,..that it appeared impracticable to penetrate it.

1859 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) iv. 83 Those strata..were also penetrated by powerful eruptions.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 64 The light instead of penetrating the snow, is thrown back from the ice-walls of each little air-cell or cavity.

1946 J. Hersey Hiroshima ii. 47 He tried at several points to penetrate the ruins, but the flames always stopped him.

1994 Queen's Q. Fall 657 Whatever penetrated the turret set fire to the 75-mm shells that ringed it.

b. intransitive. Usually with into, through, to.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > penetrate

wade993

smitec1275

reachc1300

piercea1325

sinkc1330

enterc1350

soundc1374

thirl1398

racea1420

takea1425

penetrate1530

penetre?1533

ransack1562

strike1569

thread1670

raze1677

perforate1769

spit1850

riddle1856

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 655/2 A dangerouse weapen that is able to penetrate thorowe so stronge a harnesse.

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Ecclus. xxiv. 8 I alone haue gone round about the compasse of heauen, and haue penetrated into the bottome of the depth.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity i. xii. 40 Through which distance neither her sight nor hearing can ever penetrate.

1706 Boston News-let. 7 Jan. 2/2 The Privateers finding it too hot for them on his Deck, their Gratings being all secured that they could not penetrate into his close Quarters, most of them went on board their own sloop again.

1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne 211 After the natives of Europe began to penetrate into the east.

1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein II. iii. 47 In one of these was a small and almost imperceptible chink, through which the eye could just penetrate.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lxiii. 454 I saw these homes..shaded by tall trees, through whose dense foliage the sun could scarcely penetrate.

1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xxiii. 193 And even when she penetrated to the inner depths, she found only the ordinary table and Turkey carpet.

1993 K. S. Robinson Green Mars (new ed.) 32 The mohole's shaft penetrated to very near the centre of Mars.

a. intransitive. To have or get intellectual or spiritual access, insight or knowledge; to see into or through.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [verb (intransitive)] > with effort

penetrate1540

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > show perspicacity [verb (intransitive)]

piercea1425

penetrate1540

insee1598

1540 T. Wyatt Let. to Cromwell 2 Apr. in Wks. (1815) II. 405 The intelligences penetrate no farther than the common bruit.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. iv. 6 They..yet penetrated further to know the diuine essences and substances separate.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee4 In philosophy, the contemplations of Man doe either penetrate vnto God, or are circumferred to Nature.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 26 Men, who..cannot penetrate into the Principles of Knowledge, and trace Truth, to its fountain and original.

1751 J. Harris Hermes iii. i. 307 Thus 'tis that it [sc. the mind] penetrates into the recesses of all things.

1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman iii. 79 She should learn to penetrate into their real sentiments from their conversation, their actions, their looks, and gestures.

1866 R. W. Dale Disc. Special Occasions vii. 233 We have not yet penetrated into all the secrets of nature.

1925 M. Eastman Since Lenin Died iv. 32 Without realising this, you cannot penetrate beneath the ideological surface of the dispute which followed.

1991 R. Ferguson Henry Miller v. 87 Henry penetrated further into June's mysterious world, and soon discovered it to be a sad and vulnerable place.

b. transitive. To get or have insight into; to attain knowledge or understanding of; to find out, discover, discern.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [verb (transitive)] > thoroughly, with effort

through-goOE

through-seekOE

penetrate?1563

bore1622

bottom1713

to get inside ——1830

underthink1886

to dope out1906

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > penetrate, discern [verb (transitive)]

piercea1398

to look througha1525

insee1541

penetrate?1563

to see through ——1565

to look through ——1580

understand1587

to break through1597

fathom1633

unfathom1707

?1563 Visct. Montagu tr. J. Fisher Godlie Treat. Prayer Transl. to Rdr. sig. A4^v Who..so profoundely doth penetrate the comfort, ioy, and consolation commyng by true prayer.

1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 75 If it be thoroughly penetrated, it will appear no less opposite to Contentment than the former.

1740 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) VII. 313 Seleucus penetrated his scheme.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxvi. 612 A Christian ecclesiastic was dispatched, as the holy minister of peace, to penetrate, and to perplex, the councils of the enemy.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. v. 163 Clive penetrated and disappointed his designs.

1880 E. White Certainty in Relig. 53 Men are left to penetrate their meaning by study and discovery.

1939 R. G. Collingwood Autobiogr. ix. 105 A..disguise..so good that most people hardly ever penetrate it at all.

1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 23 Nov. 25/4 We have intuitive faculties which transcend the intellect and bring us into direct experience of the truths we labour to penetrate.

3. transitive. figurative. To affect or influence deeply; to touch the heart or feelings of; to cause to hear or take notice. Also intransitive: to have an effect on the thoughts or feelings; to be fully understood or appreciated.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > intense emotion > affect intensely [verb (intransitive)]

settlea1300

sinka1375

soundc1374

sticka1400

to sit at (also close to, near, nigh, next) one's hearta1425

to lie (also come, go) nearc1475

set1607

to go (also come) neara1616

penetratea1616

the mind > emotion > intense emotion > affect intensely [verb (transitive)]

thirlc1315

piercec1390

thrilla1400

strikec1475

throb1600

penetratea1616

heart-strikea1637

transfix1649

sink1771

shoot1842

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 230 Sad sighes, deepe grones, nor siluer-shedding teares Could penetrate her vncompassionate Sire.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iii. 12 I am aduised to giue her Musicke a mornings, they say it will penetrate .

1641 Descr. Familie of Love 3 He [sc. Cupid] penetrateth the intrals of the most magnanimous.

1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic II. x. 145 Like a Man penetrated with the utmost Grief.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. x. x. 394 Cecilia, astonished and penetrated, opposed the alteration.

1838 R. Southey Doctor V. 11 Certain philosophers..have been to use the French-English of the day, deeply penetrated with this truth.

1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) vii. 184 Men may still be penetrated with awe by the Divine Righteousness.

1917 H. N. Brailsford League of Nations 324 The settlement, unless the idea of the League penetrates it and inspires it, must draw its principle from the older statecraft of anarchy and force.

1973 G. Moffat Deviant Death vii. 109 We didn't notice that the gates were open..it wasn't till we came back hours later that it really penetrated.

1992 S. Sontag Volcano Lover i. vi. 94 The music has penetrated so deeply into me that it alone directs my movements.

4. transitive. To enter and diffuse through; to permeate; to imbue with something.In quot. 1887 used reflexively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [verb (transitive)] > pervade

through-seeka1200

filla1300

fulfila1382

to run through ——1638

penetrate1652

inequitate1653

pervade1659

permeate1660

compenetrate1686

perradiate1848

impenetrate1859

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > through > permeate

ofgoc1325

penetrate1652

permeate1660

1652 J. French York-shire Spaw vii. 67 Those spirits,..becoming to be unbodied (for before they were incorporated with the water),..penetrate even the glass it self.

1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 43 The fixed purity thereof being ever penetrated by the presence of the seven Lamps of Fire.

1715 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig.: Pt. II ii. ii. 118 Yet Space is not actually to be divided; or one part of it separated from another. Since it is the universal Locus of, and penetrates all Bodies.

1815 R. Bakewell Introd. Geol. (ed. 2) x. 227 Organic remains..of large vegetables, completely penetrated with silex.

1887 Spectator 5 Nov. 1512 The reader..should have penetrated himself—so to speak—with the atmosphere of the times.

1942 E. Bowen Bowen's Court ix. 268 Four times a day, the imperious yard bell penetrates the demesne, ringing Robert's men to and from work.

1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 338/2 The first paper is a pastel in French prose on the psychopathology of visual anomalies, penetrated throughout with classical mythology and Freudian theory.

1992 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 28 What penetrates these poems is the pursuit of the perfect.

5. Specific uses.

a. transitive. Business. Of a product or company: to enter and establish a share of (a particular market). Also: (esp. in early use) intransitive with into.

ΚΠ

1873 Harper's Mag. June 36/1 Gradually are they [sc. native wines] penetrating into the Eastern markets.

1923 Times 29 Nov. 8/1 Until we regain the power to impose duties on foreign goods we cannot penetrate the foreign market.

1989 D. L. Thomas Plungers & Peacocks (rev. ed.) xiii. 319 Nipponese technology began penetrating markets around the world.

2001 India Weekly 16 Mar. 19/4 Indian and Malaysian information technology (IT) organisations have joined hands in a bid to collaborate and penetrate new markets in Asia, Europe and America.

b. transitive. Sport. Of a team or player: to breach, get past (an opponent's defence).

ΚΠ

1910 Times 14 Feb. 16/5 Oxford..accomplished a fine performance by preventing 11 such brilliant individual players from penetrating their defence.

1947 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Nov. 12/2 The Bryn Mawr defense was too effective to be penetrated and Goalie Jo Nelson found little to do in the nets.

1992 Basketball Digest Apr. 8/1 Skiles can penetrate any NBA defense and either dish the ball off, finish the play himself, or draw a foul.

c. transitive. To infiltrate (an organization, esp. an enemy espionage network) in order to gain power or information.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > procedures used in spying > surveillance [verb (transitive)] > infiltrate

penetrate1922

infiltrate1956

1922 Morning Post 28 Dec. 8/2 Details of the scheme and the methods by which the Communists will attempt to penetrate..nearly every political, industrial, and social organisation in the country.

1967 L. James Chameleon File (1968) xvi. 201 We have penetrated the Cuban g-2, Mr. Wilson. We shall know if you do not do as we have asked.

1988 S. Rosenberg Soviet Odyssey iii. 26 Members of the Young Communist League were instructed to penetrate the socialist ranks and try to wean the youth away.

d. transitive. To insert the penis, or a penis-like object, into the vagina or anus of. Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > penetrate

penetrate1953

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > penetrate

penetrate1953

bone1969

1953 H. M. Parshley tr. S. de Beauvoir Second Sex iv. iii. 377 Woman, once penetrated, has no such sense of danger; but in return she feels trespassed upon in her flesh.

1960 J. Rodney Handbk. Sex Knowl. iv. 55 Deep penetration must not be aimed at for a number of sessions, and when the woman is ready for it she will move her body in such a way that the penis will penetrate deeply.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Mar. 293/1 A character..endeavours in the course of one week to penetrate the female offspring of the entire Cabinet.

1991 Outrage Feb. 46/1 If you like the sensation of being anally penetrated, why does it have to be done with a penis and not some other similarly shaped and textured object?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	penetrate
释义	penetratev. Brit. /ˈpɛnᵻtreɪt/, U.S. /ˈpɛnəˌtreɪt/ Forms: 1500s penytrayt, 1500s–1600s (1900s– archaic) penetrate (past participle), 1500s– penetrate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin penetrāt-, penetrāre. Etymology: < classical Latin penetrāt-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix³) of penetrāre to get into, to get or have insight into, to affect or influence < penitus interior, inmost, to the inmost recesses (see penitissim adj.), after intrāre to enter, beside intus within. Compare Middle French, French pénétrer to enter into, pierce (1314 in Old French in medical use), to attain knowledge (1451), to touch the heart or feelings (c1485). Compare slightly later penetre v.The word is cited as a recent but already well-established loan from Latin in the following:1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. iv. 122 Also ye finde these words, penetrate, penetrable, indignitie, which I cannot see how we may spare them, whatsoeuer fault wee finde with Ink-horne termes: for our speach wanteth wordes to such sence so well to be vsed. The past participle form penetrate is after classical Latin penetrātus, past participle of penetrāre. 1. a. transitive. To get into or through, gain entrance or access to, esp. with force, effort, or difficulty; to pierce. Also in extended use: to bring light into or see through (darkness, fog, something opaque, etc.).In quot. ?1541: to implant or insert. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > penetrate thirlc1175 delve?c1225 piercec1325 entera1500 penetrate1530 search1594 job1603 breaka1616 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > reaching a point or place > reach a point or place [verb (intransitive)] overtakec1225 covera1375 accede1465 penetrate1530 to get through1589 pervene1589 reach1591 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > reaching a point or place > reach (a point or place) [verb (transitive)] > gain access to penetrate1530 access1978 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 655/2 I penetrate, I perce or thrill thorowe a thyng, je penetre,..and je tresperce. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Civ^v The synewes be nat penetrate but in y^e teth [L. ad dentes vero implantari videntur]. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. lvj With out resistence [we] haue penetrate the ample region..of Wales. 1610 A. Willet Hexapla in Danielem 282 One bodie doth not penetrate or pierce another. 1703 M. Chudleigh Songs of Three Children in Poems Several Occasions 49 So vast their Numbers, no one Ray of Light Cou'd penetrate the Shades of that black horrid Night. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iii. 142 The country in the neighbourhood was so grown up with wood,..that it appeared impracticable to penetrate it. 1859 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) iv. 83 Those strata..were also penetrated by powerful eruptions. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 64 The light instead of penetrating the snow, is thrown back from the ice-walls of each little air-cell or cavity. 1946 J. Hersey Hiroshima ii. 47 He tried at several points to penetrate the ruins, but the flames always stopped him. 1994 Queen's Q. Fall 657 Whatever penetrated the turret set fire to the 75-mm shells that ringed it. b. intransitive. Usually with into, through, to. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > penetrate wade993 smitec1275 reachc1300 piercea1325 sinkc1330 enterc1350 soundc1374 thirl1398 racea1420 takea1425 penetrate1530 penetre?1533 ransack1562 strike1569 thread1670 raze1677 perforate1769 spit1850 riddle1856 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 655/2 A dangerouse weapen that is able to penetrate thorowe so stronge a harnesse. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Ecclus. xxiv. 8 I alone haue gone round about the compasse of heauen, and haue penetrated into the bottome of the depth. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity i. xii. 40 Through which distance neither her sight nor hearing can ever penetrate. 1706 Boston News-let. 7 Jan. 2/2 The Privateers finding it too hot for them on his Deck, their Gratings being all secured that they could not penetrate into his close Quarters, most of them went on board their own sloop again. 1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne 211 After the natives of Europe began to penetrate into the east. 1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein II. iii. 47 In one of these was a small and almost imperceptible chink, through which the eye could just penetrate. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lxiii. 454 I saw these homes..shaded by tall trees, through whose dense foliage the sun could scarcely penetrate. 1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xxiii. 193 And even when she penetrated to the inner depths, she found only the ordinary table and Turkey carpet. 1993 K. S. Robinson Green Mars (new ed.) 32 The mohole's shaft penetrated to very near the centre of Mars. 2. a. intransitive. To have or get intellectual or spiritual access, insight or knowledge; to see into or through. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [verb (intransitive)] > with effort penetrate1540 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > show perspicacity [verb (intransitive)] piercea1425 penetrate1540 insee1598 1540 T. Wyatt Let. to Cromwell 2 Apr. in Wks. (1815) II. 405 The intelligences penetrate no farther than the common bruit. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. iv. 6 They..yet penetrated further to know the diuine essences and substances separate. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee4 In philosophy, the contemplations of Man doe either penetrate vnto God, or are circumferred to Nature. View more context for this quotation 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 26 Men, who..cannot penetrate into the Principles of Knowledge, and trace Truth, to its fountain and original. 1751 J. Harris Hermes iii. i. 307 Thus 'tis that it [sc. the mind] penetrates into the recesses of all things. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman iii. 79 She should learn to penetrate into their real sentiments from their conversation, their actions, their looks, and gestures. 1866 R. W. Dale Disc. Special Occasions vii. 233 We have not yet penetrated into all the secrets of nature. 1925 M. Eastman Since Lenin Died iv. 32 Without realising this, you cannot penetrate beneath the ideological surface of the dispute which followed. 1991 R. Ferguson Henry Miller v. 87 Henry penetrated further into June's mysterious world, and soon discovered it to be a sad and vulnerable place. b. transitive. To get or have insight into; to attain knowledge or understanding of; to find out, discover, discern. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [verb (transitive)] > thoroughly, with effort through-goOE through-seekOE penetrate?1563 bore1622 bottom1713 to get inside ——1830 underthink1886 to dope out1906 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > penetrate, discern [verb (transitive)] piercea1398 to look througha1525 insee1541 penetrate?1563 to see through ——1565 to look through ——1580 understand1587 to break through1597 fathom1633 unfathom1707 ?1563 Visct. Montagu tr. J. Fisher Godlie Treat. Prayer Transl. to Rdr. sig. A4^v Who..so profoundely doth penetrate the comfort, ioy, and consolation commyng by true prayer. 1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 75 If it be thoroughly penetrated, it will appear no less opposite to Contentment than the former. 1740 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) VII. 313 Seleucus penetrated his scheme. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxvi. 612 A Christian ecclesiastic was dispatched, as the holy minister of peace, to penetrate, and to perplex, the councils of the enemy. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. v. 163 Clive penetrated and disappointed his designs. 1880 E. White Certainty in Relig. 53 Men are left to penetrate their meaning by study and discovery. 1939 R. G. Collingwood Autobiogr. ix. 105 A..disguise..so good that most people hardly ever penetrate it at all. 1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 23 Nov. 25/4 We have intuitive faculties which transcend the intellect and bring us into direct experience of the truths we labour to penetrate. 3. transitive. figurative. To affect or influence deeply; to touch the heart or feelings of; to cause to hear or take notice. Also intransitive: to have an effect on the thoughts or feelings; to be fully understood or appreciated. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > intense emotion > affect intensely [verb (intransitive)] settlea1300 sinka1375 soundc1374 sticka1400 to sit at (also close to, near, nigh, next) one's hearta1425 to lie (also come, go) nearc1475 set1607 to go (also come) neara1616 penetratea1616 the mind > emotion > intense emotion > affect intensely [verb (transitive)] thirlc1315 piercec1390 thrilla1400 strikec1475 throb1600 penetratea1616 heart-strikea1637 transfix1649 sink1771 shoot1842 a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 230 Sad sighes, deepe grones, nor siluer-shedding teares Could penetrate her vncompassionate Sire. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iii. 12 I am aduised to giue her Musicke a mornings, they say it will penetrate . View more context for this quotation 1641 Descr. Familie of Love 3 He [sc. Cupid] penetrateth the intrals of the most magnanimous. 1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic II. x. 145 Like a Man penetrated with the utmost Grief. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. x. x. 394 Cecilia, astonished and penetrated, opposed the alteration. 1838 R. Southey Doctor V. 11 Certain philosophers..have been to use the French-English of the day, deeply penetrated with this truth. 1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) vii. 184 Men may still be penetrated with awe by the Divine Righteousness. 1917 H. N. Brailsford League of Nations 324 The settlement, unless the idea of the League penetrates it and inspires it, must draw its principle from the older statecraft of anarchy and force. 1973 G. Moffat Deviant Death vii. 109 We didn't notice that the gates were open..it wasn't till we came back hours later that it really penetrated. 1992 S. Sontag Volcano Lover i. vi. 94 The music has penetrated so deeply into me that it alone directs my movements. 4. transitive. To enter and diffuse through; to permeate; to imbue with something.In quot. 1887 used reflexively. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [verb (transitive)] > pervade through-seeka1200 filla1300 fulfila1382 to run through ——1638 penetrate1652 inequitate1653 pervade1659 permeate1660 compenetrate1686 perradiate1848 impenetrate1859 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > through > permeate ofgoc1325 penetrate1652 permeate1660 1652 J. French York-shire Spaw vii. 67 Those spirits,..becoming to be unbodied (for before they were incorporated with the water),..penetrate even the glass it self. 1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 43 The fixed purity thereof being ever penetrated by the presence of the seven Lamps of Fire. 1715 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig.: Pt. II ii. ii. 118 Yet Space is not actually to be divided; or one part of it separated from another. Since it is the universal Locus of, and penetrates all Bodies. 1815 R. Bakewell Introd. Geol. (ed. 2) x. 227 Organic remains..of large vegetables, completely penetrated with silex. 1887 Spectator 5 Nov. 1512 The reader..should have penetrated himself—so to speak—with the atmosphere of the times. 1942 E. Bowen Bowen's Court ix. 268 Four times a day, the imperious yard bell penetrates the demesne, ringing Robert's men to and from work. 1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 338/2 The first paper is a pastel in French prose on the psychopathology of visual anomalies, penetrated throughout with classical mythology and Freudian theory. 1992 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 28 What penetrates these poems is the pursuit of the perfect. 5. Specific uses. a. transitive. Business. Of a product or company: to enter and establish a share of (a particular market). Also: (esp. in early use) intransitive with into. ΚΠ 1873 Harper's Mag. June 36/1 Gradually are they [sc. native wines] penetrating into the Eastern markets. 1923 Times 29 Nov. 8/1 Until we regain the power to impose duties on foreign goods we cannot penetrate the foreign market. 1989 D. L. Thomas Plungers & Peacocks (rev. ed.) xiii. 319 Nipponese technology began penetrating markets around the world. 2001 India Weekly 16 Mar. 19/4 Indian and Malaysian information technology (IT) organisations have joined hands in a bid to collaborate and penetrate new markets in Asia, Europe and America. b. transitive. Sport. Of a team or player: to breach, get past (an opponent's defence). ΚΠ 1910 Times 14 Feb. 16/5 Oxford..accomplished a fine performance by preventing 11 such brilliant individual players from penetrating their defence. 1947 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Nov. 12/2 The Bryn Mawr defense was too effective to be penetrated and Goalie Jo Nelson found little to do in the nets. 1992 Basketball Digest Apr. 8/1 Skiles can penetrate any NBA defense and either dish the ball off, finish the play himself, or draw a foul. c. transitive. To infiltrate (an organization, esp. an enemy espionage network) in order to gain power or information. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > procedures used in spying > surveillance [verb (transitive)] > infiltrate penetrate1922 infiltrate1956 1922 Morning Post 28 Dec. 8/2 Details of the scheme and the methods by which the Communists will attempt to penetrate..nearly every political, industrial, and social organisation in the country. 1967 L. James Chameleon File (1968) xvi. 201 We have penetrated the Cuban g-2, Mr. Wilson. We shall know if you do not do as we have asked. 1988 S. Rosenberg Soviet Odyssey iii. 26 Members of the Young Communist League were instructed to penetrate the socialist ranks and try to wean the youth away. d. transitive. To insert the penis, or a penis-like object, into the vagina or anus of. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > penetrate penetrate1953 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > penetrate penetrate1953 bone1969 1953 H. M. Parshley tr. S. de Beauvoir Second Sex iv. iii. 377 Woman, once penetrated, has no such sense of danger; but in return she feels trespassed upon in her flesh. 1960 J. Rodney Handbk. Sex Knowl. iv. 55 Deep penetration must not be aimed at for a number of sessions, and when the woman is ready for it she will move her body in such a way that the penis will penetrate deeply. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Mar. 293/1 A character..endeavours in the course of one week to penetrate the female offspring of the entire Cabinet. 1991 Outrage Feb. 46/1 If you like the sensation of being anally penetrated, why does it have to be done with a penis and not some other similarly shaped and textured object? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1530
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