compenetrate, v.
(kəmˈpɛnɪtreɪt)
[f. med.L. compenetrāt- ppl. stem of compenetrāre: see com- and penetrate.]
trans. To penetrate in every part, pervade, permeate.
| 1686 Boyle Free Enq. 359 A Philosophizer may justly ask, How a Corporeal Being can so pervade, and, as it were, com-penetrate the Universe, as to be intimately present with all its Minute Parts. 1836 F. Mahony in Fraser's Mag. XIV. 91 Animal matter..impregnated, or, to use the school term, ‘compenetrated,’ by a spiritual essence. 1855 Card. Wiseman Fabiola 73 The world..felt itself surrounded, filled, compenetrated by a mysterious system. |