Word.ws English Dictionary

perviate

perviate verb: to penetrate.

Verb

perviate (third-person singular simple present perviates, present participle perviating, simple past and past participle perviated)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To penetrate.
    • He acts thus until he leave so much of the cranium cut away, or perforated, as he judges will enable compression to contract the head into a sufficiently small compass to perviate the pelvis.1840, Thomas Travers Burke, The Accoucheur's Vademecum, page 214
  2. (archaic, transitive) To spread or permeate throughout.
    • The woods, perviated every where with paths, unhappily afforded us no new traces, and we much feared that the robbers had divided their plunder, and gone off in a different direction.1856, Gabriel Ferry, Vagabond Life in Mexico, page 264

Forms of perviate

third-person singular presentperviates
present participleperviating
past participleperviated
pastperviated

Questions about perviate

What does perviate mean?
Perviate means to penetrate.
What part of speech is perviate?
Perviate is a verb.
What is the past tense of perviate?
The past tense of perviate is perviated.

Words near perviate in the dictionary

  1. Pervez
  2. Pervezi
  3. Pervezis
  4. perviability
  5. pervial
  6. perviate
  7. perviated
  8. perviates
  9. perviating
  10. pervicacious
  11. pervicaciously

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: perviate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “perviate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/perviate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.