emanation ism (emanashonizm)

[ It [superstition] settled very thickly again in the first Christian centuries, as cabalism, emanation ism , neo-platonism, etc., with their hierarchies of spirit-hosts. G. S. Hall , German Culture, p. 315. emancipationist a contractor, lit. one who takes (the property or a symbol of it) in hand, When the dying slaveholder asked for the last sacraments, his spiritual attendants regularly adjured him, as he loved his soul, to emancipate his 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. Arbuthnot . No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country. Emerson , E ays, 1st ser., p. 319. =Syn. Emancipate, Manumit, Enfranchise, Liberate, disenthrall, release, unfetter, unshackle. To manumit is the act of an 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 enfranchise 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 oppre ions, as fears, doubts, etc. Thought emancipated itself from expre ion without becoming its tyrant. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 326. All slaves that had been taken from the northern shore of the Gulf of Mexico were to be manumitted and reB an croft, Hist. U. S., I. 52. When then it was taken into the service of these Ema natist [Val ent in i an and Manic he an) doctrines, the Homoousion 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 [Homoöusion] its Catholic meaning, unaffected by any Emanatist glo . Liddon , Bampton Lectures, pp. 439, 440.