transmeate

present singular third person transmeates · participle present transmeating · participle past transmeated · past transmeated

1. obsoleterareTo pass over or beyond.

   That the space consisting solely of actives of the fourth finite and enclosed by the ethereal volume, can transmeate the atmosphere with a perfectly free current;

   1846, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Principia: Or, The First Principles of Natural Things, page 327

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   “The transparency of the air, and of diaphanous bodies in general, is wholly inexplicable, if we suppose that a foreign body, emanating from a source of light, (for instance, the sun,) transmeates them; for this supposition would account for their ..."

   1844, The Dublin University Magazine, page 289

   Its consequence is that the above tissue permeability of the root only indicates intrability of the plasm, whereas deplasmolysis experiments show the transmeating of a substance. It is then the permeability of the tonoplast that renders a passive ...

   1948, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeling Natuurkunde, Proceedings of the Section of Sciences, volume 51, part 1, page 27