perviate verb2 •(no longer used) 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 •(no longer used) 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 formsperviated · perviating · perviates