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Emanant

Earthenware bowl, cream-colored, rectangular, with leaves stylized in relief that seem to emanate from four centrally placed horns (?). The leaves end in two handles.
Earthenware bowl, cream-colored, rectangular, with leaves stylized in relief that seem to emanate from four centrally placed horns (?). The leaves end in two handles.
Illustrations
Moses carries a stone tablet over his head. Two rays of light emanate from his forehead.
Moses carries a stone tablet over his head. Two rays of light emanate from his forehead.
Manjushri, in manjuwara emanation, seated in lalitasana on his mount, the lion.
Manjushri, in manjuwara emanation, seated in lalitasana on his mount, the lion.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Emanant
    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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. emanant
    Flowing, issuing, or proceeding from something else; becoming apparent by an effect.
  2. (n) emanant
    In mathematics, the result of operating any number of times upon a quantic with the operator (x'd/dx + y'd/dy +, etc.). J. J. Sylvester, 1853. Cayley (1856) defines it as one of the coefficients of the quantic formed by substituting for x, y, etc., the facients of the quantic to which the emanant belongs, lx + mx', ly + my', etc., and then considering l and m as the two facients of the new quantic so obtained.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Emanant
    flowing from
Quotations
Malcolm Muggeridge
Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. emanans, -antis, p. pr. of emanare,. See Emanate

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. emanāre, -ātume, out from, manāre, to flow.

Usage in the news

Immediately I could see huge plumes of smoke that appeared to be coming from somewhere right outside of Twin, but as drove I found the smoke was actually emanating from Filer. kezj.com

The stink emanating from the headquarters of Louisville's Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) is not from the sewers themselves, but from a number of things hitting the fan last Friday. louisville.com

This need/demand emanated from a growing number of nursing homes applying for accreditation who also offered subacute care units. rcjournal.com

No offense to my BusinessWeek overlords and Silicon Alley pals, but we're convinced that the smartest, most innovative ideas for using the Internet emanate from this coast, not yours. businessweek.com

It was less of a winter wonderland and more of a mild fall day, but Christmas music still emanated Sunday from speakers overhead at the Frederick Fairground. fredericknewspost.com

A steady stream of earnings and a slew of misinformation emanating overseas had traders chasing their tales and investors covering their heads— it's trippy out there, and few have been immune. amny.com

The beluga 's caretakers had heard what sounded like garbled phrases emanating from the enclosure before, and it suddenly dawned on them that the whale might be imitating the voices of his human handlers. psychologytoday.com

That sound you just heard was a huge sigh of relief (and OK, maybe a little bit of a victory whoop) emanating from Uni Watch HQ. espn.go.com

But the Elantra GT's sweeping lines emanate from the same Hyundai Fluidic Sculpture design that made the Hyundai Sonata a US sales winner. telegram.com

It emanates from natural spiritual energy. midweek.com

The meteors seem to be emanating from the Gemini constellation. latimes.com

There's the big official pronouncements that emanate from Washington, on the health of the labor market or the size of the trade gap. ashingtonpost.com

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. A narrowly averted farm tragedy this month has a farm safety expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences renewing his warning about the dangers of toxic gases emanating from manure -storage facilities. farmanddairy.com

The only light in entire neighborhoods emanated from the trucks of utility workers fixing power lines nearly two weeks after. courant.com

A ray of sunshine emanating from a most unlikely source briefly penetrated the gloom of Arizona's right-wing politics on Monday. nytimes.com

Usage in scientific papers

In addition, we consider the heat propagation through the radiative layers to the surface, and discuss how this can “wash-ou t” any coherent pulse emanating from deeper layers.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts

Rutherford, “The Radiation and Emanation of Radium,” Pt.
How the sun shines

An orientation O on a graph Γ is a function which associates to each vertex v a cyclic ordering of the edges emanating from v .
On the Genus of a Random Riemann Surface

We may also think of the three solid lines as edges of a graph emanating from a vertex.
On the Genus of a Random Riemann Surface

In other words, there is no guarantee that a new vertex will have an edge emanating from it.
Are randomly grown graphs really random?

Usage in literature

The laws against Ireland, emanating from Queen Anne, were atrocious. "The Man Who Laughs" by Victor Hugo

They are emanations of personality rather than collections of legs, arms, and bowels. "Old and New Masters" by Robert Lynd

The peaceful nocturnal roar of the city, dwindling every moment now, reached them like an emanation from another world. "The Regent" by E. Arnold Bennett

Her temperament was still emanating the same aura. "The Pretty Lady" by Arnold E. Bennett

The characteristic of other civilisations has been unity; they seem to have emanated from a single fact, a single idea. "The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI." by Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

Therefore all its emanations or creations are triple. "Simon Magus" by George Robert Stow Mead

It is thus a sparkling emanation out of the Infinite, and it leads us thither whence it has come. "Essays Æsthetical" by George Calvert

They knew that such songs could only emanate from a man whose heart overflowed with the warmest sentiment to all childhood. "Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions" by Slason Thompson

Let the buildings emanate conscious life. "The Art Of The Moving Picture" by Vachel Lindsay

This whole culture is secondary and tertiary, and it truly represents the respectable mediocrity from which it emanates. "Emerson and Other Essays" by John Jay Chapman

Usage in poetry
II. Since first I caught the ray's reflected light
Which genius emanated o'er his soul,
Or distant follow'd the enthusiast's flight,
Or from his fairy dreams a vision stole.
II. Beneath each mimic tint still let me find
Each dear remember'd feature, each lov'd trait,
Each emanation of that ardent mind
That lent reflection's power, or fancy's ray.
"So, grac'd with delights that arise in the mind,
As through flowers, the language should flow!
While the eye, where we fancy all soul is enshrin'd,
With divine emanations should glow!
Ye lovers of the picturesque, away, away!
To beautiful Comrie and have a holiday;
Aud bask in the sunahine and inhale the fragrant air
Emanating from the woodlands and shrubberies there.
In our unreason and unrest,
How little know we what is best!
How little can explore the deep
Whence emanates our weal and woe!
But this we feel, and this we know,
"God giveth His beloved sleep."
Ye stars! whose faint and feeble fires
Express my languishing desires,
Whose slender beams pervade the skies,
As silent as my secret sighs,
Those emanations of a soul,
That darts her fires beyond the Pole;