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Definition of Pervading
1. pervade [v] - See also: pervade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pervading
Literary usage of Pervading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Treatise on Heat by Balfour Stewart (1866)
"This leads us to ask if there is a material medium pervading space; ...
Medium pervading space. We have several reasons for assuming the existence of such a ..."
2. Practical Jurisprudence: A Comment on Austin by Edwin Charles Clark (1883)
"pervading idea of law. In the unconscious definitions of law furnished by ...
The nearest approximation to a uniform or pervading idea is certainly not so ..."
3. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"... of the man of pleasure, without perceptible transitions, the author's own
intense individuality pervading and connecting each successive mood. XXII. ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"But modulation, though an all - pervading means of expression in Schubert's hands,
is only one out of many. Scarcely inferior to the wealth of his ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... and by proclaiming with a powerful pen and with vast erudition sound philosophic
principles in the midst of a well-nigh all-pervading pantheism. ..."
6. Philosophical Transactions by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1782)
"... by the Aberration of the fixed Stars, "whether the Rays of Light, in pervading
different Media, change their Velocity according to the Laiv •which re ..."
7. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"It is a general rule, standing on strong foundations, and pervading every system
of jurisprudence, that where an agent is duly constituted, and names his ..."
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