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单词 pervade
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pervadev.

Brit. /pəˈveɪd/, U.S. /pərˈveɪd/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pervādere.
Etymology: < classical Latin pervādere to spread, extend, diffuse, to spread through, to go or come through, to pass through, to cross, traverse < per- per- prefix + vādere vade v.2
1.
a. intransitive. To spread, extend, diffuse; to be present and apparent throughout.
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the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [verb (intransitive)] > pervade
pervade1655
permeate1656
commeate1660
1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) App. iii. 312 Here union pervades through all.
a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. i. 83 His soul lustrates and pervades through all things.
1796 E. Parsons Myst. Warning IV. 186 A general air of concern pervaded through the whole party.
1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 105 In England, the manners, habits and dress of the capital, pervade to the remotest angle of the kingdom.
1889 A. Geikie in Nature 19 Sept. 492/1 We find certain well-defined principles, or one may term them natural laws, pervading everywhere.
1937 W. MacNeile Dixon Human Situation x. 195 A profound and inexpugnable discord appears to pervade.
2001 R. Kenna Glasgow Pub Compan. (ed. 2) 99/2 A traditional informal Glasgow pub culture pervades.
b. transitive. To pass into every part of; to spread throughout; to permeate; to saturate, to fill.
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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
1659 H. More Immortality of Soul ii. xv. §5. 274 There is a vitall Aire that pervades all this lower world.
1704 I. Newton Opticks ii. iii. 53 Substances soaked in such Liquors as will intimately pervade their little pores, become by that means more transparent than otherwise.
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. Translator's Pref. An ardent spirit of enquiry pervaded..Europe.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab v. 71 Disease, disgust, and lassitude, pervade Their valueless and miserable lives.
1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 102 That powerful sentiment of nationality, which pervades the Poems.
1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 133 An odour of age and decay pervaded the whole crumbling building.
1995 Times Educ. Suppl. 10 Feb. (National Curriculum Update Suppl.) 11/4 The Curriculum Cymreig..is meant to ensure that ‘Welshness’ pervades the curriculum.
2. transitive. To go or pass through; to cross, to traverse. Now rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > through
smitec1275
to pass through ——c1330
traverse?a1400
transpiercec1604
pervade1656
bore1716
needle1813
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pervade, to go and enter over all, thorow or into; to scape or pass through or by.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiv. 18 So cow'ring fled the sable heaps of ghosts,..And now pervade the dusky land of Dreams.
1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xxxii. 154 A cave in Paphlagonia... It was long and wide, and pervaded by cold water, clear as chrystal.
1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. (1871) II. 122 Mr. Powers and I pervaded the whole universe.
1892 A. K. H. Boyd Twenty-five Years St. Andrews II. xvii. 54 I pervaded Westminster Hall and looked into most of the Courts.
1955 V. Nabokov Lolita II. i. 22 A low sun in a platinum haze with a warm, peeled-peach tinge pervading the upper edge of a one-dimensional, dove-gray cloud.
2003 Ventura County (Calif.) Star (Nexis) 31 Aug. j1 It was enclosed behind Plexiglas, affording an up-coast view of waves, whales and sunsets, while we didn't have to endure the wind that pervades the area.

Derivatives

perˈvadence n. rare the action or quality of pervading.
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the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [noun] > pervading
pervasion1661
pervadence1838
1838 G. S. Faber Inq. Hist. & Theol. Anc. Vallenses & Albigenses 580 A pervadence of the world both universal and complete.
a1916 G. H. Howison in G. H. Howison, Philosopher & Teacher: Select. Writings (1934) 286 This everlastingness, or indestructible pervadence of infinite futurity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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