v. [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.
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, Eng. & Irel., 12. The feudal idea, which views all rights as emanating from a head landlord, came in with the Conquest.
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. Harold, 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. S. Coleman, Woodlands (1866), 61. This vast vegetable curiosity all emanating from a single stem.
1865. Tylor, Early Hist. Man., ix. 229. The alarm the natives felt when they saw 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., xii. (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. rare.
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. Ibid. (1832), Pol. Econ., ii. 49. They emanate nothing but their own peculiar articles.
