v. [f. med.L. compenetrāt- ppl. stem of compenetrāre: see COM- and PENETRATE.] trans. To penetrate in every part, pervade, permeate.
1686. Boyle, Free Enq., 359. A Philosophizer may justly ask, How a Corporeal Being can so pervade, and, as it were, com-penetrate the Universe, as to be intimately present with all its Minute Parts.
1836. F. Mahony, in Fraser’s Mag., XIV. 91. Animal matter … impregnated, or, to use the school term, ‘compenetrated,’ by a spiritual essence.
1855. Cdl. Wiseman, Fabiola, 73. The world … felt itself surrounded, filled, compenetrated by a mysterious system.
