Definition of Permeative

1. Adjective. Spreading or spread throughout. "An error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion"

Exact synonyms: Permeant, Permeating, Pervasive
Similar to: Distributive
Derivative terms: Permeate, Permeate, Permeate, Pervade, Pervasiveness

Definition of Permeative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Permeative

permeablized
permeably
permeameter
permeance
permeances
permeant
permeants
permease
permeases
permeate
permeated
permeates
permeating
permeation
permeations
permeative (current term)
permeator
permeators
permed
permethrin
permethrinase
permethrins
permethylated
permethylation
permethylations
permian
permie
permies
permillage
permillages

Literary usage of Permeative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"I wonder how long that incomprehensible democracy would have hesitated, after the spirit of permeative liberty had got the better of the organized forms, ..."

2. On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1839)
"... so here the difference in respect of the body politic is, that in sundry instances the former, that is, the permeative, species of force is capable of ..."

3. Addresses and Orations of Rufus Choate by Rufus Choate (1891)
"I wonder how long that incomprehensible democracy would have hesitated, after the spirit of permeative liberty had got the better of the organized forms, ..."

4. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1913)
"A youth, by name Oswald Alving, who has inherited a permeative taint from his profligate father, deceased, and whose condition is verging toward some ..."

5. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"... yet it involved far less transfer of population, and worked more by way of permeative conquest than of migration proper. The Arabs spread over Irak, ..."

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