perviate

English

Verb

perviate (third-person singular simple present perviates, present participle perviating, simple past and past participle perviated)

1. (transitive, archaic) To penetrate.
   • 1840, Thomas Travers Burke, The Accoucheur's Vademecum (page 214)

     He acts thus until he leave so much of the cranium cut away, or perforated, as he judges will enable compression to contract the head into a sufficiently small compass to perviate the pelvis.

2. (transitive, archaic) To spread or permeate throughout.
   • 1856, Gabriel Ferry, Vagabond Life in Mexico (page 264)

     The woods, perviated every where with paths, unhappily afforded us no new traces, and we much feared that the robbers had divided their plunder, and gone off in a different direction.