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Meaning of PERMEANT

Pronunciation:  'purmeeunt

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  spreading throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic"
 
 Synonyms: distributive, permeating, permeative, pervasive
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Per"me*ant\, a. [L. permeans, p. pr.]
Passing through; permeating. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
 

 

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