A WORD A DAY.

Southland Times, Issue 21271, 18 December 1930, Page 8

A WORD A DAY.

EMANATE. In speaking of immaterial things, qualities, laws, courses of action and the like, we employ this term emanate, meaning “to issue from” or “to originate.” In a physical sense it means “to flow forth,” or “to proceed from some definite source”; from the Latin e “out,” and manere, "to flow.” AVhen used in connection with intangible things, like light, gases, etc., and also with things in nature, its meaning is that of branches or rays going out from a common stem or center. One occasionally sees the term used relating to persons as though proceeding from a place, like an educational institution. The noun “emanation” is often applied to the origination of created beings by God, with reference to the fact that the spiritual universe derives its reflected existence from Spirit, and not from an act of creation out of nothing. Em-a-nate should be accented on the first syllable. Sound e as in end, first a as in sofa, second a as in late. “Sparks emanated from the flint and steel.’’