PERVIOUS

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil. [Doors] . . . pervious to winds, and open every way. Pope.

2.
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Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision. [R.] God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye. Jer. Taylor.

3.
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Capable of penetrating or pervading. [Obs.] Prior.

4.
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Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.