emanatev.
/ˈɛməneɪt/, U.S. /ˈɛməˌneɪt/ 1. intransitive. Of immaterial things, qualities, laws, principles, courses of action: To flow forth, issue, originate from a person or thing as a source.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate, derive, or arise [verb (intransitive)]
arisec950
syeOE
comeOE
riselOE
springc1175
buildc1340
derivec1386
sourdc1386
proceedc1390
becomea1400
to be descended (from, of)1399
bursta1400
to take roota1400
resolve?c1400
sourdre14..
springc1405
descenda1413
sprayc1425
well?a1475
depart1477
issue1481
provene1505
surmount1522
sprout1567
accrue?1576
source1599
dimane1610
move1615
drill1638
emane1656
emanate1756
originate1758
to hail from1841
deduce1866
inherita1890
stem1932
1756 Crit. Rev. 2 340 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 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1822) XIII. 50 A new dominion, emanated from a learned and enlightened part of the world.
1828 C. Lamb Confessions of Drunkard (rev. ed.) in Elia 2nd Ser. 204 His destruction..emanating from himself.
1868 J. S. Mill Eng. & Ireland 12 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.
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the world > matter > gas > [verb (intransitive)] > of vapour, etc.: be emitted, rise, or pass off
to stand upc1300
risea1382
exhalec1400
steam1582
fume1594
suffumigate1599
emanate1818
off-gas1979
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > from a source
forthgoc1000
flowc1175
sprouta1200
lightc1225
reflaira1450
emane1656
spawn1657
emanate1818
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xxxviii. 22 A glory round his furrow'd brow, Which emanated then.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. xxvi. 465 Steam, at an extremely high temperature, such as is commonly given out from the rents of lava-currents during congelation, emanates from the fissures.
1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 43 This vast, vegetable curiosity, all emanating from a single stem.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind ix. 229 The sparks emanating from the flint and steel.
1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) ii. i. 270 These organs..emanate..from a reddish coloured point.
3. Of persons: To issue, proceed from a place, an educational institution, etc. rare.
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1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland xii. 273 A centre of polite learning, from which emanated some of the most distinguished men in Ireland.
4. transitive. To emit, send out. literal and figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit
send971
stretchc1275
casta1300
sheda1325
manda1350
to throw outa1413
yielda1450
devoida1475
render1481
reflair1509
sup out1513
to give out1530
utter1536
spout1568
to give fortha1586
to let fly1590
to put out1614
eject1616
evacuate1622
ejaculate1625
emit1626
fling1637
outsend1647
exert1660
extramit1668
exclude1677
emane1708
extromita1711
evolve1772
emanate1797
discharge1833
exsert1835
to give off1840
1797 Monthly Rev. 23 584 A magnetism which a more sublime genius is often unable to emanate.
1823 T. Chalmers Serm. I. 195 He did not emanate the gift.
1832 T. Chalmers On Polit. 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 Christopher 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.
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