ombrant
(||Æ`mail` om`brant") [F., shaded enamel.] (Fine Arts) An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

Emanant
(Em"a*nant) a. [L. emanans, -antis, p. pr. of emanare. See Emanate.] Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; — said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.

Emanate
(Em"a*nate) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emanated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Emanating.] [L. emanare, emanatum, to emanate; e out + manare to flow, prob. for madnare, and akin to madere to be wet, drip, madidus wet, drenched, drunk, Gr. wet, to be wet, Skr. mad to boil, matta drunk. Cf. Emane.]

1. To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.

2. To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate.

That subsisting from of government from which all special laws emanate.
De Quincey.

Syn. — To flow; arise; proceed; issue; originate.

Emanate
(Em"a*nate) a. Issuing forth; emanant. [R.]

Emanation
(Em`a*na"tion) n. [L. emanatio: cf. F. émanation.]

1. The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin. South.

Those profitable and excellent emanations from God.
Jer. Taylor.

2. That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence; as, perfume is an emanation from a flower.

An emanation of the indwelling life.
Bryant.

Emanative
(Em"a*na*tive) a. Issuing forth; effluent.

Emanatively
(Em"a*na*tive*ly), adv. By an emanation.

Emanatory
(Em"a*na*to*ry) a. Emanative; of the nature of an emanation. Dr. H. More.

Emancipate
(E*man"ci*pate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emancipated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Emancipating.] [L. emancipatus, p. p. of emancipare to emancipate; e + mancipare to transfer ownership in, fr. manceps purchaser, as being one who laid his hand on the thing bought; manus hand + capere to take. See Manual, and Capable.] To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.

Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas.
Jowett

(c) To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.

From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences . . . he had emancipated and freed himself.
Evelyn.

To emancipate the human conscience.
A. W. Ward.

Emancipate
(E*man"ci*pate) a. [L. emancipatus, p. p.] Set at liberty.


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