transmeate

verb

1. To pass over or beyond.

   obsolete, rare

   “The transparency of the air, and of diaphanous bodies in general, is wholly inexplicable, if we suppose that a foreign body, emanating from a source of light, (for instance, the sun,) transmeates them; for this supposition would account for their ..."

Where it comes from

From Latin transmeatus, past participle of transmeare (“to pass across”), from trans (“across, over”) + meare (“to go”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry transmeate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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