transmeatetransmeate means to pass over or beyond. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.EtymologyFrom Latin transmeatus, past participle of transmeare (“to pass across”), from trans (“across, over”) + meare (“to go”).verbTo 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 ..."”