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emanative, a.|ˈɛməneɪtɪv|
[as if ad. L. *ēmānātīvus: see emanate and -ive.]
1. Tending to issue forth; of the nature of an emanation; due to emanation.
1661tr. Origen's Opin. in Phœnix (1721) I. 13 All Effects and Productions whatever, whether voluntary or emanative. 1685H. More Para. Proph. 471 The Holy Ghost proceedeth..by an Emanative procession. 1842G. S. Faber Prov. Lett. (1844) II. 213 The Father..is superior to the emanative or derivative Persons of the Son and the Holy Spirit.
2. With transitive force: Tending to produce, emit, bring forth.
1651Biggs New Disp. 220 Emit their vertues by an emanative and influential manner. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 739 No Imperfect Being..hath a sufficient Emanative Power to Create any other Substance. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. ix. 233 True wisdom is an emanative principle. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) IX. xiv. ii. 55 A concentered and emanative power of imparting..spiritual influences.
3. Relating to or connected with the philosophical or the theological theory of emanation.
1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. I. i. vii. §21. 399 That fundamental theorem of the emanative philosophy. 1838J. H. Newman Arians i. §5 They advocated the Emanative, as it may be called, or in-dwelling theory. |