transmeate

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

transmeate (third-person singular simple present transmeates, present participle transmeating, simple past and past participle transmeated)

1. (obsolete, rare) To pass over or beyond.
   • 1844, The Dublin University Magazine, page 289:

     “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 ..."

   • 1846, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Principia: Or, The First Principles of Natural Things, page 327:

     That the space consisting solely of actives of the fourth finite and enclosed by the ethereal volume, can transmeate the atmosphere with a perfectly free current;

   • 1948, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeling Natuurkunde, Proceedings of the Section of Sciences, volume 51, part 1, page 27:

     Its consequence is that the above tissue permeability of the root only indicates intrability of the plasm, whereas deplasmolysis experiments show the transmeating of a substance. It is then the permeability of the tonoplast that renders a passive ...

• “transmeate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• metasterna

trānsmeāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of trānsmeō