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.