The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pervade \Per*vade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pervaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Pervading.] [L. pervadere, pervasum; per + vadere to go, to walk. See Per-, and Wade.]
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To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.
That labyrinth is easily pervaded.
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To pass or spread through the whole extent of; to be diffused throughout.
A spirit of cabal, intrigue, and proselytism pervaded all their thoughts, words, and actions.
--Burke.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of pervade English)
WordNet
adj. spread throughout; "a pervasive anxiety overshadows the triumphs of individuals" [syn: pervasive]
Usage examples of "pervading".
He wanted every possible contact with this real familiar world, wanted to embed every least part of it into him as protection against the cold alien presence that was pervading the mountain.
Any man who heartily believed what Christ said that he was Divinely authorized to declare, and did declare, the pervading goodness of the Father and the immortal blessedness of the souls of his children, by the very terms was delivered from the bondage of fear and commenced the consciousness of eternal life.
PlasHein Square, confusion and fear pervading him, darkness and noise all around, pressing in, choking, crushing.
Within minutes he was on horseback, trotting through the sunlit streets as quickly as the busy citizens would allow, his control still icy and pervading both his horse and Kerna, riding behind him.
Cassraw that he barely noticed the agitation that was pervading the Witness House when he reached it.
And then there was no summit, no Nertha, and no Whistler, save for his frantic trilling call pervading everything.
It had helped him even further to note the almost sprightly air that was pervading the old man.
Vredech drew in a deep breath and felt the light washing away the last remnants of the sour blue air that scarcely heartbeats ago had been pervading him.
How vain and void, how flat and fruitless, appear all those splendid accidents of existence for which men struggle, without this essential and pervading charm!
Secondly, the striking agreement in regard to fundamental doctrines, pervading spirit, and ritual forms between the accounts in the classics and those in the Avestan books, and of both these with the later writings and traditional practice of the Parsees, furnishes powerful presumption that the religion was a connected development, possessing the same essential features from the time of its national establishment.
This aim gives a pervading cast and color to the entire treatment to the reasoning and especially to the chosen imagery of the epistle.
He who denies this only betrays the ignorance which conceals from him a pervading law of inevitable application, only reveals the degradation and insensibility which do not allow him to be conscious of his own experience.
It may be that within his material system lurks an exquisite spiritual organization, invisibly pervading it and constituting its vital power.
The doctrine of Swedenborg asserts man to be interiorly an organized form pervading the physical body, an eternal receptacle of life from God.
Sound theology will see that God is the pervading Creator who governs all from within by the continuous action and reaction between every life and its environing conditions.