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† eˈmane, v. Obs. [ad. F. émane-r, (or) ad. L. ēmānāre to flow out: see emanate v.] = emanate in its various senses. 1. intr. To flow out, issue from a source or fountain head; lit. and fig.; esp. of the Second Person of the Trinity.
1656tr. White's Peripateticall Institutions 296 Nature actually emanes and flows out from Him. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 282 Out of which scarification emanes a crass juice. 1720Waterland Eight Serm. Pref. 20 Wherein the Son is affirmed to have emaned, or been emitted by Necessity of Nature. 1795–8T. Maurice Hindostan (1820) I. i. i. 50 The Deity..caused to emane from himself ‘an immeasurable torrent of water’. 1817Bentham Ch.-Engl. (1818) 129 The several authorities from which..acts..are spoken of as having emaned. 2. trans. To give forth as an emanation. rare.
1708Motteux Rabelais v. xx, Pythagoras, from whom the venerable Antiquity of my Progenitors..was eman'd. 1800Moore Ode Anacreon xvii, Her eyes..Emaning fire..e'en in anger sweet! Hence eˈmaning, ppl. a.
1658J. Robinson Calm Vent i. 118 All mens Souls are alwaies alike; though their emaning beams be either brighter or duller. |