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▪ I. eˈmerge, n. nonce-wd. [f. next.] A surface that has emerged.
1878B. Taylor Deukalion iii. i. 101 The slow ages on her bare emerge Gathered the dust for grass. ▪ II. emerge, v.|ɪˈmɜːdʒ| [ad. (directly or through Fr. émerger) L. ēmergĕre, f. ē out + mergĕre to dip.] †1. intr. To rise by virtue of buoyancy, from or out of a liquid. Obs. exc. as a contextual use of 2.
1667Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual., Emerging to the top of a much heavier Liquor. 1721Bailey, Emerge..when a..Body..lighter than Water, being thrust down..into it, rises again..it is said to immerge [sic] out of the Water. 2. To come up out of a liquid in which (the subject) has been immersed. Also transf. to rise from (under the surface of) the earth.
1640G. Watts Bacon's Adv. Learn. ii. xiii. (R.) From whose [Medusa's] blood gushing out, instantly emerged Pegasus the flying horse. 1684T. Burnet The. Earth (J.), The mountains emerged, and became dry land again. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. v. 168 Great multitudes of Animals did fortuitously emerge out of the Soil. 1700Dryden Homer Wks. 1821 XII. 377 Thetis..emerging from the deep. 1765Cowper Lett. 4 July, Just emerged from the Ouse, I sit down to thank you. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Result Wks. (Bohn) II. 137 The Ocean out of which [Great Britain] emerged. 3. a. To come forth into view; to pass out, issue, from an enclosed space, area of obscuration, etc.
1700Dryden Fables (J.), Darkness, we see, emerges into light. 1751Johnson Rambl. No. 144 ⁋3 No sooner can any man emerge from the crowd. 1809–10Coleridge Friend I. 5 He emerged from his place of shelter. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §22. 157, I..saw the party..emerging from one of the hollows. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 141 By the time the stream emerges [from the lake]. ¶ quasi-trans. (cf. depart this life, etc.)
1675R. Burthogge Causa Dei 238 Here..as on a..tumultuous Sea, men are Uncapable of..discerning God..but hereafter, when they have emerged it, they shall, etc. b. spec. in Optics of a ray of light after passing through a lens, prism, etc.; in Astron. of a heavenly body after occultation or eclipse.
1704Newton Optics (T.) The rays emerge more obliquely out of the second refracting surface. 1833Sir J. Herschel Astron. x. §541 (1858) 361/2 The satellite..will emerge..after..occultation. 1839G. Bird Elem. Nat. Phil. 379 If the glass parallelopiped be sufficiently long, the beam of light will emerge circularly polarized. 4. fig. a. To rise into notice, come forth from obscurity; also, to issue from a state of subjection, suffering, embarrassment, etc. Also said of the production of a type by such a process as evolution.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 296 The Pope once emerged above the Emperor. 1665Glanvill Sceps. Sci. 79 The Empire began to emerge from that black night of Ignorance. 1713Bentley Phil. Lips. §40 (T.) Children, who must needs have emerged in a secular life. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 71 How very soon France..recovered and emerged from the..dreadful civil war. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vi. 13 He emerges into distinct notice..ten years subsequent. 1876Green Stray Stud. 185 Florence emerged into communal greatness. 1913G. E. Smith in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1912 582 When the true mammal emerged. 1915[see emergence 2 a]. †b. Used (like L. evadere) for: To ‘turn out’, become. Obs.
1699Evelyn Acetaria (1729) 146 An accomplish'd Sallet-Dresser..to emerge an exact Critic. 5. Of a fact, principle, etc.: To come out as the result of an investigation or discussion. Of a state of things, a question or problem: To ‘crop up’, arise, present itself for solution (esp. suddenly or unexpectedly).
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 86/2 All difficult questions in all prouinces whatsoeuer emerging. 1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 10 Hence emerges a difficulty. 1702Evelyn in Pepys Diary VI. 254 Instructions naturally emerging from the subject. 1710Prideaux Orig. Tithes ii. 52 So many reasons would continually emerge. 1791Burke Thoughts Fr. Affairs Wks. VII. 51 The train of things as they successively emerge. 1861Tulloch Eng. Purit. i. 30 The political difficulty..did not emerge in Elizabeth's reign. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. 249 Here emerges the question as to compulsory attendance. ▪ III. emerge bad spelling of immerge v.
1644Jus Populi 34 The right of Fathers..is now emerged or made subordinate. 1743Humours of Whist 45, I have been emerged in calculation ever since. 1824Mechanic's Mag. No. 50. 351 Emerge it into a..cistern of cold water. |