Per·me·ate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Permeated p. pr. & vb. n. Permeating.]
1. To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand.
2. To enter and spread through; to pervade; as, after the first setback, the team became permeated with pessimism.
God was conceived to be diffused throughout the whole world, to permeate and pervade all things. --Cudworth.
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permeating
adj : spreading throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he
punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of
garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to
more than one conclusion" [syn: permeant, permeative,
pervasive]