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Definition of Permeates
1. permeate [v] - See also: permeate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Permeates
Literary usage of Permeates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1897)
"... it surrounds us and hems us in and permeates us. If science pursues it, it
takes flight and cannot be grasped. Our intellect resembles those ancestors ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"tenor, is a sense of the living power that pervades and permeates the earth.
For AE the dumb universe, bruta tellus, is charged with unspeakable properties, ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1884)
"He says : ing must be changed aa soon as a little discharge permeates it, lest
a septic channel be established for the ubiquitous and maleficent vibrios ..."
4. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"... the universal nourishing matter which, in its eternal circulation, permeates
all parts of the cosmos, assumes in each a different constitution, ..."
5. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1855)
"The inorganic constituents of plants show that silicates are present in the water
which permeates the soil, and which supplies plants with their nutriment. ..."
6. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... out of an indiscreet fear, feigned many gods :" in which words which permeates
and passes through the whole universe, by which all things that are made, ..."
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