Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Percolate

Percolate , transitive verb

[Latin percolatus, past participle of percolare to percolate; per through + colare to strain.]

To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. — Sir M. Hale

Percolate , intransitive verb

To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.