emanant (emanant)

and n. [ 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 M. Hale , Orig. of Mankind, p. 35. II. n. In math ., 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 z, y, etc., the facients of the quantic to which the emanant belongs, lx + mz, ly + my, etc., and then considering I and m as the two facients of the new quantic so obtained. emanate (em'a-nāt), v.; pret. and pp. emanated, ppr. emanating. [L. emanatus, pp. of emanare (> It. emanare = Sp. Pg. emanar = F. émaner, E. emane, q. v.), flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from, people. That subsisting form of government from which all laws emanate . De Quincey. All the stories we heard emanated from Calcutta. W. H. Ru ell , Diary in India, I. 2. The Hebrew word used here [in Genesis) for light includes the allied forces of heat and electricity, which with light now emanate from the solar photosphere. Dawson, Nature and the Bible, p. 92. II. trans. To send or give out; manifest. [Rare.] We spoke of bright topics only, his manner all the while emanating the silent sympathy which helps so much because it respects so much. Quoted in Merriam's Bowles, II. 413.