emanate

Etymology

From Latin ēmānāre (“to flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from”), from e (“out”) + mānāre (“to flow”).

verb

  1. (intransitive) To come from a source; issue from.
    Fragrance emanates from flowers.
    […] this Association has taken into its serious consideration a proposal, emanating from the aforesaid, Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., and three other Pickwickians hereinafter named, […] 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    that subsisting form of government from which all special laws emanate 1830, Thomas De Quincey, “Kant in his Miscellaneous Essays”, in Blackwood's Magazine
  2. (transitive, rare) To send or give out; manifest.

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