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mĕābĭlis, e, adj. [meo].

  1. * I. Pass., passable, that can be passed through: transitus vel bubus meabilis, Plin. 6, 1, 1, § 2.
  2. * II. Act., passing through, penetrating: aër per cuncta rerum meabilis, Plin. 2, 5, 4, § 10.

* mĕācŭlum, i, n. [meo], a course, passage = meatus: vos, superi caelestesque, vestra recensebitis meacula, Mart. Cap. 8, § 813.

mĕāmet, for mea or mea ipsius: culpa, Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 37.

meapte, for mea or mea ipsius: causa, Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 8.

mĕātim, adv. [meus], in my manner, analog. to tuatim, after thy manner; acc. to Prisc. p. 949 P.; Donat. p. 1759 P.

mĕātor, ōris, m. [meo], a passenger, traveller, wanderer: DOLE MEATOR QVISQVIS HOC LEGIS CARMEN, Inscr. ap. Guarin. in Prosod. Lat. Fundam. p. 133: INTERPRES DIVVM COELI TERRAEQVE MEATOR, of Mercury, as the messenger of the gods, Inscr. Orell. 1417.

mĕātus, ūs, m. [meo], a going, passing, motion, course (poet. and post-Aug.).

  1. I. Lit.: solis lunaeque meatus, Lucr. 1, 128: caeli, Verg. A. 6, 850: aquilae, flight, Tac. H. 1, 62: spiritus, i. e. the breathing, respiration, Quint. 7, 10, 10: animae, Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 13.
  2. II. Transf., concr., a way, path, passage, Val. Fl. 3, 403: meatum vomiticnibus praeparare, Plin. 19, 5, 26, § 85: spirandi, id. 28, 13, 55, § 197: cur signa meatus Deseruere suos, left their paths, i. e. became darkened, eclipsed, Luc. 1, 664: Danubius in Ponticum sex meatibus erumpit, discharges itself through six channels, Tac. G. 1; cf.: bifido meatu divisus Rhenus, divided into two channels, Claud. B. G. 336.
    1. B. The avenues of sensation in the body: homo septem meatus habet in capite, duos oculos, etc., Mart. Cap. 7, § 739.