Per·me·ate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Permeated p. pr. & vb. n. Permeating.]
 1. To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand.
 2. To enter and spread through; to pervade; as, after the first setback, the team became permeated with pessimism.
    God was conceived to be diffused throughout the whole world, to permeate and pervade all things.   --Cudworth.

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 permeating
      adj : spreading throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he
            punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of
            garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to
            more than one conclusion" [syn: permeant, permeative,
             pervasive]