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.
1656. [? J. Sergeant], trans. T. White’s Peripat. Inst., 296. Nature actually emanes and flows out from Him.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 282. Out of which scarification emanes a crass juice.
1720. Waterland, Eight Serm., Pref. 20. Wherein the Son is affirmed to have emaned, or been emitted by Necessity of Nature.
1795–8. T. Maurice, Hindostan (1820), I. I. i. 50. The Deity … caused to emane from himself ‘an immeasurable torrent of water.’
1817. Bentham, 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.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, V. xx. Pythagoras, from whom the venerable Antiquity of my Progenitors … was eman’d.
1800. Moore, Ode Anacreon, xvii. Her eyes … Emaning fire … e’en in anger sweet!
Hence Emaning ppl. a.
1658. J. Robinson, Calm Vent, I. 118. All mens Souls are alwaies alike; though their emaning beams be either brighter or duller.
