transmeating

Verb

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

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