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E'MANANT, \_emanans, I,at.] I(Thingfrom fome- 
diing elfe.—The firft aft of the divine nature, relating 
to the world, and his adminiftrption thereof, is an emanant 
aft : the mod: wifeceunfel and purpofe of Almighty God, 
terminate in thofe two great tranfient or emanant afts or 
works, the work of creation and providence. Hale. 
To E'MANATE, v. n. [emano , Lat.] To iffue or Row 
from fomething elfe.—They have their rrfidence in a 
city, whofe conflitution has emanated, neither from the 
charter of their king, nor from their legillative power. 
Burke. 
EM AN A'TION, f. lemanatio, Lat.] The aft of iffu- 
ing or proceeding froth any other fubftance.—Ariftotle 
faid, that it dreamed by connatural refult and emanation 
from God, the infinite and eternal Mind, as the light if- 
fues from the fun. South. —That which i (flies from an¬ 
other fubftance; an efflux ; effluvium.—The experience 
of thofe profitable and excellent emanations from God, 
may be-, and commonly are, the firff motive of our love. 
Tdylor. 1 
Such were the features of her heav’nly face ; 
Her limbs were form’d with fuch harmonious grace ; 
So faultlefs was the frame, as if the whole - 
Had been an emanation of the foul. Dry den.- 
EMAN'ATIVE, adj. [from emano, Lat.] Iffuing from 
another. 
To EMAN'CIPATE, v. a. [emancipo, Lat.] Tofetfree 
from fervitude ; to reffore to liberty.—Having received 
the probable inducements of truth, we become emanci¬ 
pated from teffimonial engagements. Brown. —They eman¬ 
cipated themfelves from dependence. Arbuthnot. 
EMANCIPATION,/. The aft of fettingfree; de¬ 
liverance from flavery. — Obftinacy in opinions holds the 
dogmatift in the chains of error, without hope of emanci¬ 
pation. Glanville. 
EMAN'UEL, or Immanuel, a name given to Chrift. 
A man’s name. * 
EM ANtJEN'SIS, / One who writes what another 
dictates or direfts. This is more ufually written ama- 
■nuenjis. 
To EMAR'GINATE, v. a. [ margo , I.at.] To take 
away the edge or margin of any thing, 
EMAR'GINATED, pari. Deprived of the margin, 
cut or indented in the form of a heart, indented on the 
edge. 
EMARGTNA'TION,/. Cleaning off the feurf which 
gathers ajaout the edge of a wound, Scott. 
EM AS'CULATE,/. [from emafc.ulo, Lat. to render im¬ 
potent.] The malady or imperfeftion of having the te(ti¬ 
des in the belly, and not fallen into the ferotum. 
To EMAS'CULATE, v. a. \_emafculo, Lat.] To caf- 
trate ; to deprive of virility.—When it is found how 
many ewes, fuppofe twenty, one ram will ferve, we may 
geld nineteen ; for if you emafculate but ten, you (hall, by 
promifeuous copulation, hinder the increafe. Graunt. — 
To effeminate ; to weaken ; to viciate by unmanly foft- 
nefs.—Dangerous principles impofe upon our underftand- 
ings, emafculate our fpirits, and fpoil our temper. Collier. 
From wars and from affairs of (late abftain ; 
Women emafculate a monarch’s-reign. Dry den. 
EM ASCULA'TION,/ Caftration. Effeminacy; wo- 
manifii qualities'; unmanly foftnefs. See the article Cas¬ 
tration, vol. iii. p. 891. 
EMA'THIA, a name'given anciently, and particularly 
by the poets, to the countries which formed the empires 
of Macedonia and Theffaly. Virgil. 
EMA'THION, a (on of Titan and Aurora, who reigned 
in Macedonia. The country was called Emalkia from his 
name. Some fuppofe that he was a famous robber de- 
ffroyed by Hercules. Ovid. 
EMBA'BEH, a town of Egypt, near the pyramids of 
Girgeli, two miles weft, of Cairo. 
Vol. VI. No. 366. 
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To EMBA'LE, v. a. \_embpller, Fr.] To make up into 
a bundle. To bind up ; to inclofe : 
Below her ham her weed did fofnewhat train, 
And her ftraight legs mod bravely were enibapd 
In golden bufkins of coftly cord wain. Sperfer. 
EMBA'LL, v. a. \_emballcr , Fr.] To make up in a 
ball. Shahefpcare. 
7 VF.MBA'LM, v. a. \embaumer , Fr . onbalfajper, Span.] 
To impregnate a body with aromatics, that it may refill 
putrefaftion. See Egypt, p. 352, of this volume. 
Verfe embalms virtue, and tombs or thrones of rhymes, 
Preferve frail tranfitory frame as much 
As fpice doth bodies from corrupt air’s touch. Donne. 
Mufe ! at tl\at name' thy facred forrows (hed ; 
Thofe tears eternal that embalm the dead. Pope. 
EMBALM'ER, f. One that praftifes the' art of em¬ 
balming and preferving. bodies.—The Romans were not 
fo good cmbalmcrs as the Egyptians, fo the body was ut¬ 
terly confirmed. Bacon. 
D F.MBAR', ti. a, To (hut; to enclofe : 
Themfelves for fear into his jaws to fall, 
He forc’d to caftle ftrong to take their flight; 
Where firft embar'd in mighty brazen wall, 
He has them now four years befieg’d to make them thrall. 
Sptmfer. 
To flop ; to hinder by prohibition ; to block up : 
If this commerce ’twixt heav’n and earth-were not 
Embar'd, and all this traffic quite forgot. 
She, for whofe lofs we have lamented thus, 
Would work more fully and pow’rfuljy on us. Donne. 
EM'B A P , a town of Africa, in the country of Senegal. 
EMB ARCADE'RE, J'. (on the American coaft.) A 
haven or bay which ferves fome inland city as a port or 
place for flopping. Scott. 
EMBARCA'TION, f. The aft of putting on fliip- 
board.—The French gentlemen were very folicitous for 
the cmbarcation of the army, and for the departure of the 
fleet. Clarendon .—The aft of going on fhipboard. 
EMB AR'GO, /. \_embargar, Span.] A prohibition to 
pafs; in commerce, a. flop put to trading veffels.—After 
an embargo of our trading (hips in the river of Bourdeaux, 
and other points of fovereign affront, there did fuccecd 
the aftion of Rheez. IVotlon. 
To EMB AR'GO', v.a. To lay on an embargo ; to de¬ 
tain.—The embargo upon our Drips in the ports of Ruffia 
was in confequence of feveral captains attempting to 
fmuggle wheat on-board. Thofe difeovered were irnme¬ 
diately embargoed, and others were prevented from pro¬ 
ceeding to fea, until they fhould be fearched. Evening 
Mail. 
To EMB-A'RK, v. a. \cmbarquer, Fr.] To put on (hip- 
board. To engage another in any affair.—The king had 
provided a good fleet, and had caufed a body of three 
thoufand foot to be embarked on thofe (hips. Clarendon. 
Straight to the (hips .Eneas took his way, 
Embark'd his men, and (kim’d along the fea. Dryden. 
To EMBA'RK, v. n. To go on fhipboard. To engage 
in any affair : 
I fhould with fpeed embark, 
And with their embaffy return to Greece. Phillips. 
EMB AR'QUEMENT, f. [Fr. from to embark. ] The 
(late, or being on fhipboard ; any thing put on fhipboard, 
a cargo, in which laft fenfe it apparently occurs in Shake- 
fpeare’s Coriolanus.— Embarquement all of fury.—Mr. Ma- 
fon in his Suppl. to Johnfon, confounds the word with 
embargo. Monthly Mag. 
To EMBAR'RAS, v. a. \_embaraffer, Fr.] To perplex ; 
to. diftrefs; to entangle.—I law my friend a little embar - 
raffed, and turned away. Spectator. 
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