emaceration 
emacerationt (o-mas-o-ni'slion), . [< 
uti +-i.] A making or becoming lean; ema- 
ciation. 
emaciate (e-ma'shi-at), r. ; pret. and pp. ema- 
i-inliil. ppr.' fiiHH-ialiiti/. [< L. i-iiiiiriiiluts, pp. 
of emaciare (> It. eiuiteiare), make lean, cause 
to waste away, < '. out, 4- "macinri; make lean, 
< imicieH, leanness, < inacert; be lean, macer 
(macr-), lean, whence ult. E. mcai/cr, q. v.] I. 
/run*. To cause to lose flesh gradually; waste 
the flesh of; reduce to leanness: as, great suf- 
fering i-iitaciatcx the body. 
A uolil sweat bedews his ''imn'iatfd cheeks. 
r. KIIHX, Christian Philosophy, I 56. 
II. intraitx. To lose flesh gradually ; become 
lean, as by disease or pining ; waste away, as 
flesh. 
lit- | Ai istotlrj >'<ui"'int''il and pilied away. 
Sir T. Brornte, Vulg. Err., vll. 14. 
emaciate (6-ma'shi-at), a. [< L. emaciatus, pp. : 
sec the verb.] Thin; wasted; greatly reduced 
in flesh. [Poetical.] 
Or groom invade me with defying front 
And st. TII demeanour, whose emaciate steeds . . . 
Had panted oft beneath my goring steel. 
T. n'artim, Panegyric on Oxford Ale. 
emaciation (e-ma-shi-a'shpn), n. [= F. emaci- 
dliint = Sp. emaciation = Pg. emaeiaySo = It. 
emacia:ione ; < L. as if *emaciatio(n-), < emaci- 
are, pp. einaciatutt, make lean : see emaciate.] 
1. The act of making lean or thin in flesh. 2. 
The state of becoming thin by gradual wasting 
of flesh ; the state of being reduced to leanness. 
Searchers cannot tell whether this emaciation or lean- 
ness were from a phthisis, or from an hectick fever. 
Oraunt, Bills of Mortality. 
Marked hy the emaciation of abstinence. Scott, 
emaculatet (e-mak'u-lat), v. t. [< L. eniacula- 
tiix, pp. of emaculare, clear from spots, < e, out, 
+ macula, a spot: see macula and mail 1 .] To 
free from spots or blemishes; remove errors 
from; correct. 
Llpsius, Savile, Pichcna, and others have taken great 
pains with him [Tacitus] In emaculating the text, settling 
the reading, etc. Hales, Golden Remains, p. 273. 
emaculationt (e-mak-u-la'shon), n. [< emacu- 
late + -ion.] The act or operation of freeing 
from spots. 
emailt, emalt, . Same as amel. 
Set rich rnbye to reed ettiayle, 
The raven's plume to peacocke's tayle. 
Puttenham, Partheniades, xv. 
eraanant (em'a-nant), a. and n. [< L. ema- 
uan(t-)s, ppr. of cmanare, flow out, spring out 
of, arise, proceed from: see emanate.] I. a. 
Flowing, issuing, or proceeding from some- 
thing else ; becoming apparent by an effect. 
The most wise counsel and purpose of Almighty God 
terminated in those two great transient or emanant acts 
or works, the works of creation and providence. 
Sir it. Hale, Orig. of Mankind, p. 35. 
II. n. In math., the result of operating any 
number of times upon a quantic with the oper- 
ator (x'AlAx + y'd/dy +, etc.). J. J. Sylvester, 
1853. Cayley (1850) defines it as one of the coefficients of 
the quantic formed l>y substituting for z, >i. etc., the fa- 
cients of the quantic to which the emanant belongs, Ix + 
HI r . lit r mi/', etc., and then considering / and m as the 
two fat'ients of the new iiuantic so obtained. 
'a-nat), r. ; pret. and pp. emanated, 
(> 
E. 
ppr. emaiiiitiiiij. [< L. emanatus, pp. ofemanare 
It. emaiiare = Sp. Pg. emanar = F. emaner, > 
emaae, q. v.), flow out, spring out of, arise, 
proceed from. < c, out, + mditare, flow : see ma- 
nation, madid.] I. intrans. To flow out or is- 
sue; proceed, as from a source or origin; come 
< :;o forth: used chiefly of intangible things: 
as. light emanates from the sun; fragrance ema- 
nates from flowers; power i-miniatm fjom the 
people. 
That subsisting form of government from which all laws 
emaiuite. De Quincey. 
All the stories we heard emanated from Calcutta. 
W. H. RnmeU, Diary in India, I. 2. 
Tile Hebrew word used here [in Genesis] for liuht in. 
eludes the allied forces of heat and electricity, which with 
light now enutn"f>' from the solar photosphere. 
Dawvon, Nature and the Bible, p. 02. 
II. trans. To send or give out; manifest. 
[Kare.] 
We spoke of bright topics only, his manner all the 
while emanating the silent .sympathy which helps so 
much Iwcause it respects so much. 
Quoted in Merriatn'l Bowles. II. 4 IS. 
emanate (em'a-nat), a. [< L. emanatus, pp.: see 
the verb.] Issuing out; emanant. Southey. 
| Kare.] 
emanation (em-a-na'shpn). . [= F. fmtiiin- 
linii = Sp. emanacion == Pg. emanaySo It. 
I--:, 
i-iii<ina:innr; < LIj. eiiitnifitio(ii-), an emana- 
tion, < L. i-mniiiin, flow out: see emanate.] 
1. The act of flowing or issuing from a foun- 
tainhead or origin; emission; radiation. 2. 
In i>liilii.: (a) Efficient causation due to the 
essence and not to any particular action of 
the cause. Thus, when the trunk of a tree, is 
moved, the branches go along with it by virtue 
of emanation. Hence (6) The production of 
anything by such a process of causation, as 
from the divine essence. The doctrine of emana- 
tion appears in its noblest form in the Knneads of Ploti- 
mis, who makes sensible things to emanate from the 
Ideas, the Ideas to emanate from the Nous, and the Nous 
to emanate from the One. lamhliehus makes the One to 
emanate from the Good, thus Koin>, r tine step further. The 
tinostica and Cabalists pushed the doctrine to fantastic 
developments. 
In the work of the creation we see a double emanation of 
virtue from God. ttacon, Advancementof Learning, i. 61. 
3. That which issues, flows, or is given out 
from any substance or body; efflux; effluvium: 
as, the odor of a flower is an emanation of its 
particles. 
Justice is the brightest emanation from the gospel. 
Sydney Smith. 
4. In uli/., the process of obtaining the succes- 
sive emauauts of a quantio. 
Regnault's chemical principle of substitution and the al- 
gebraical one of emanation are identical. J. J. Sylvester. 
Facients of emanation, the facients x', y', etc., referred 
to In Cayley's definition of an emanant. 
emanationism (em-a-na'shon-izm), n. [< ema- 
nation + -ism.] Devotion to theories of ema- 
nation. 
It [superstition I settled very thickly again in the first 
Christian centuries, as cabalism, emanationism, neo-pla- 
Umism, etc., with their hierarchies of spirit-hosts. 
G. S. Hall, German Culture, p. 315. 
emanatist (em'a-na-tist), n. and a. [< emanate 
+ -ist.] I. H. In theol., one who believes in 
the efflux of other beings from the divine es- 
sence; especially, a member of one of the an- 
cient Gnostic sects, such as that of the Val- 
entinians, which maintained that other beings 
were so evolved. See emanation, 2 (b). 
II. a. In theol., of or pertaining to the doc- 
trine of the emanatists. 
When then it was taken into the service of these 'ma- 
natiat [Valentinian and Manichean) doctrines, the Hoino- 
ousion implied nothing higher than a generic or specific 
bond of unity. . . . The Nicene Fathers, on the other 
hand, were able, under altered circumstances, to vindicate 
for the word [Homoousinn] its Catholic meaning, unaf- 
fected by any Emanatiet gloss. 
Liddon, llampton Lectures, pp. 439, 440. 
emanative (em'a-na-tiv), . [< emanate + 
-ive.] Proceeding by emanation ; issuing or 
flowing out, as an effect due to the mere exis- 
tence of a cause, without any particular activity 
of the latter. 
By an emanatitv. cause is understood such a cause as 
merely by being, no other activity or causality interposed, 
produces an effect. Dr. II. More, Immortal, of Soul, 1. 6. 
It sometimes happens that a cause causes the effect by 
its own existence, without any causality distinct from its 
existence; and this by some is called einanatirc: which 
word, though feigned with repugnancy to the analogy of 
the Latin tongue, yet is it to he used upon this occasion 
till a more convenient can be found out. 
Bttryertiticius, tr. by a Gentleman. 
'Tis against the nature of ruwiuuier effects ... to sub- 
sist but by the continual influence of their causes. 
Glanville, Essays, i. 
emanatively (em'a-na-tiv-li), adv. In or after 
the manner of an emanation ; by emanation. 
It is acknowledged by us that no natural, imperfect, 
created l>eing can create, or emniiatitwly produce, a new 
substance which was not l>efore, and give it its whole be- 
ing. Cudirorth, Intellectual System. 
emanatory (em'a-na-to-ri), a. [< ML. 'emana- 
toriim (neut. emanatorinm, a fountain), < L. ema- 
iinri; How out: see emanate.] Having the na- 
ture of an emanation ; emanative. 
Nor is there any incongruity that one substance should 
cause something else which we may in some sense call 
substance, though but secondary or rmanatory. 
Dr. II. More, Immortal, of Soul, I. . 
6manche (ii-moush'), H. In her., same as manche. 
emancipate (e-man'si-pat), r. t. ; pret. and pp. 
emancipated, ppr. emancipating. [< L. eman- 
i-ijuitiifi, pp. of rniiieiiiri; miancupare (> It. 
<'iiiancii>are = Sp. Pg. emancipar = F. imanci- 
/ier = D. emanciperen = G. cmancipiren = Dan. 
I'liiiincipere = Sw. cnuincipi'ra, emancipate), 
declare (a son) free and independent of the 
father's power by the thrice-repeated act of 
mnncipatio and niiinumixsio, give from one's 
own power or authority into that of another, 
j;iv(> up, surrender, < e, put, + nuiHciparc, man- 
< n /Hire, give over or deliver up. as property, by 
means of the formal act called m//riyii/M,give 
up, transfer. < uui>n-i-/tx (;<//)-), a purchaser, 
emancipationist 
a contractor, lit. one who takes (the property 
or a symbol of it) in hand, < manus, hand, + 
; take. From /</////.< comes also man- 
1-i/iniiH, the formal act of purchase, hence a 
thing so purchased, and esp. a slave ; but eman- 
I'li'in'c was not used in reference to freeing 
slaves, the word for this act being manumittcn : 
see manumit.] 1. To set free from servitude or 
bondage by voluntary act ; restore from slavery 
to freedom; liberate: as, to emancipate a slave. 
When the dying slaveholder asked for the last sacra- 
menu, his spiritual attendants regularly adjured him, as 
he loved his soul, to emancipate, ois brethren for whom 
Christ had died. Macaulay. 
2. To set free or liberate ; in a general sense, 
to free from civil restriction, or restraint of 
any kind; liberate from bondage, subjection, or 
controlling power or influence : as, to emanci- 
pate one from prejudices or error. 
They emancipated themselves from dependence. 
Arbuthmit. 
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and 
country. Kmerton, Essays, 1st ser., p. 319. 
= Syn. Emancipate, Manumit, Enfranchise, Liberate, dis- 
enthrall, release, unfetter, unshackle. To manumit is 
the act of au individual formally freeing a slave ; the 
word has no figurative uses. To emancipate is to free 
from a literal or a figurative slavery : as, the slaves in 
the West Indies were emancipated ; to emancipate the 
mind. To cnfranchinc is to bring into freedom or into 
civil rights ; hence the word often refers to the lifting of 
a slave into full civil equality with freemen. Liberate is 
a general word for setting or making free, whether from 
slavery, from confinement, or from real or figurative op- 
pressions, as fears, doubts, etc. 
Thought emancipated itself from expression without 
becoming its tyrant 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2dser., p. 326. 
All slaves that had been taken from the northern shore 
of the Gulf of Mexico were to be manumitted and re- 
stored to their country. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 52. 
In the course of his life he [a Roman master] en/ran- 
chined individual slaves. On his death-bed or by his will 
he constantly emancipated multitudes. 
Lerku, Europ. Morals, I. 249. 
To cast the captive's chains aside 
And liberate the slave. 
Longfellow, The Good Part. 
emancipate (e-man'si-pat). a. [< L. emancijia- 
tus, pp. : see the verb.] Freed ; emancipated. 
We have no slaves at home. Then why abroad ? 
And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave 
That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 
Cowper, Task, II. 39. 
emancipation (e-man-si-pa'shon), n. [= F. 
emancipation = Sp. emancipacion = Pg. eman- 
fipacflo = It. emancipazione = D. emancipate = 
G. Dan. Sw. emancipation, < L. emancipatio(n-), 
emancipation, < emancipare, emancipate : see 
emancipate.] 1. The act of setting free from 
bondage, servitude, or slavery, or from depen- 
dence, civil restraints or disabilities, etc.; de- 
liverance from controlling influence or subjec- 
tion ; liberation : as, the emancipation of slaves ; 
emancipation from prejudices, or from burden- 
some legal disqualifications; the emancipation 
of Catholics by the act of Parliament passed 
in 1829. 
Previous to the triumph of Emancipation in the Fed- 
eral District there was no public provision for the educa- 
tion of the Blacks, whether bond or free. 
//. Greeley, Amer. Conflict, II. 54. 
Emancipation by testament acquired such dimensions 
that Augustus found it necessary to restrict the power; 
and he made several limitations, of which the most im- 
portant was that no one should emancipate by his will 
more than one hundred of his slaves. 
Leclcy, Enrop. Morals, I. 249. 
2. The freeing of a minor from parental con- 
trol. It may be accomplished by the contract of parent 
and child, and in the case of a female by marriage, and 
in some states by judicial decree. Catholic Emancipa- 
tion Act. See Catholic. Emancipation proclamation, 
in I'. S. /"'../.. the proclamation by which, on January 1st, 
1863, President Lincoln, as commander-in-chief of the ar- 
mies of the United States, declared as a military measure, 
in accordance with notice proclaimed September 22d, 1862, 
that within certain specified territory in armed rebellion all 
persons held as slaves ' 'are and henceforward shall be free." 
Was the Emancipation Proclamation legally oprtvtive 
and efficient the moment it was uttered ? or, as many have 
maintained, only so fast and so far as our armies reached 
the slaves or the slaves our armies ? The Sation, I. 163. 
Gradual emancipation, the freeing of slaves by de- 
grees or according to certain individual contingencies, as 
between specified ages or after a prescribed length of 
service. Slaver)' was extinguished hy gradual emancipa- 
tion in most of the original northern United States, and 
it was at an early date advocated by many in the more 
southern states. Laws were passed at different periods 
for gradual emancipation in the British and Spanish West 
Indies and in Brazil ; but they have been in each instance 
finally superseded by acts for the absolute abolition of 
slavery. =Syn. 1, Release, manumission, enfranchisement. 
emancipationist (f-man-si-pa'shon-ist), ii. [< 
emancipation + -ist.] One who is in favor of 
or advocates the emancipation of slaves. 
