pervadere

pervadere [CL] 1 to advance or proceed through, to cross, traverse. ut populus Domini liquit Memphitica sceptra / umida [v. l. humida] cum siccis pervadens caerula plantis Aldh. VirgV 2478. 2 to spread through or over, permeate, penetrate, pervade; b (person); c (property, territory, or sim., w. ref. to occupying or misappropriating). fumus quem horribilis ille fluvius exhalabat, nimio fetore ~ens Ailr. An. III 38.  b ut omnem mox fetorem ‥ qui me pervaserat ‥ effugaret Bede HE V 12 p. 307; posset videri tot uno impetu fieri, ream pervasam liberari, judicem quoque a demone possideri Herm. Arch. 2 p. 32; exulis Edelbaldi comes dum ab immundo spiritu pervasus est ‥ Ord. Vit. IV 15 p. 273.  c ~ere alienam rem, manifeste presumere Gl. Leid. 1. 84; Guilelmus hereditarium sibi Anglie regnum ~ens G. Crispin Herl. 78; ut ‥ Urbanus Romam et Boamundus Illiricum et Macedoniam ~erent [v. l. ~eret] W. Malm. GR IV 344; ne ecclesiarum possessiones tam abrupte postea ~erent G. Steph. 80 p. 160; c1251 contra presbyterum illum pestilentem, qui ‥ obsistente sibi Salvatore animarum, conatur ~ere regimen animarum in vicaria de Blokkesham Ad. Marsh Ep. 26 p. 114; pastorum cunei, cum conspiratione populorum clerum ‥ in regno Francie effrenata rabie ~entes Ib. 28 p. 121; monasterium ipsum pervasum ac dirutum (Wilf.) NLA II 443. 3 to make one’s way (to). c1086 ad Udicam pervaserat Willelmus de terra Sancte Trinitatis ad parcum suum Regesta 220 p. 127.