a. [as if ad. L. *ēmanātōrius, f. ēmānāre to EMANATE.] a. Of the nature of an emanation, derivative. b. Pertaining or referable to the philosophical theory of emanation.
1659. H. More, Immort. of Soul (1662), 28. Something which we may in some sense call Substance, though but Secondary or Emanatory.
1882–3. Schaff, Relig. Encycl., I. 162/1. The old emanatory views of God.
