emanate, v.
(ˈɛməneɪt)
[f. L. ēmānāt- ppl. stem of ēmānāre f. ē- out + mānāre to flow.]
1. intr. Of immaterial things, qualities, laws, principles, courses of action: To flow forth, issue, originate from a person or thing as a source.
| 1756 Crit. Rev. II. 340 The French author is not much oblig'd..to his English translator. We meet with the words,..misanthropes, tranquilly, emanate, legerity..and many others. 1788 Burke Sp. W. Hastings Wks. XIII. 50 A new dominion, emanated from a learned and enlightened part of the world. 1823 Lamb Elia Ser. ii. xxiii. (1865) 396 His destruction..emanating from himself. 1868 Mill England & Irel., The feudal idea, which views all rights as emanating from a head landlord. |
2. In physical sense: To flow forth, issue, proceed, from a material source; chiefly of intangible things, as light, gases, effluvia, etc. Also, to issue, originate, as a branch from the stem.
| 1818 Byron Ch. Har. iv. xxxviii, A glory round his furrow'd brow, Which emanated then. 1830 Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) II. ii. xxx. 146 Fissures..from which mephitic vapours emanated. 1854 J. Hogg Microsc. ii. i. (1867) 270 These organs..emanate..from a reddish coloured point. 1859 W. Coleman Woodlands (1866) 61 This vast vegetable curiosity all emanating from a single stem. 1865 Tylor Early Hist. Man. ix. 229 The sparks emanating from the flint and steel. |
¶ 3. Of persons: To issue, proceed from a place, an educational institution, etc. rare.
| 1867 Smiles Huguenots Eng. xiii. (1880) 230 A centre of polite learning, from which emanated some of the most distinguished men in Ireland. |
4. trans. To emit, send out. lit. and fig.
| 1797 Monthly Rev. XXIII. 584 A magnetism which a more sublime genius is often unable to emanate. 1823 Chalmers Serm. I. 195 He did not emanate the gift. 1832 ― Pol. Econ. ii. 49 They emanate nothing but their own peculiar articles. 1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris i. ii. 34 Bookcases..emanating an atmosphere of..meditation. 1939 S. de Madariaga Columbus xii. 136 In this land [sc. Castille]..the mental-moral soil was broken..by forbidding abysses which emanated all kinds of poisonous gases and murderous flames. |