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Definition of Permeative
1. Adjective. Spreading or spread throughout. "An error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion"
Similar to: Distributive
Derivative terms: Permeate, Permeate, Permeate, Pervade, Pervasiveness
Definition of Permeative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Permeative
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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