Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EM, n. ['Em.]

A contraction of them. They took'em. Hudibras.

E-MAC'ER-ATE, v.t.

To make lean. [Not in use.]

E-MAC'E-RA-TED, pp.

Made lean.

E-MAC'E-RA-TING, ppr.

Making lean.

E-MAC'E-RA-TION, n.

A making lean.

E-MA'CIATE, a.

Thin; wasted. Shenstone.

E-MA'CIATE, v.i. [L. emacio, from maceo, or macer, lean; Gr. μικκος, μικρος, small; Fr. maigre; Eng. meager, meek; It. Sp. and Port. magro; D. Sw. Dan. and G. mager; Ch. מאך, to be thin. Class Mg, No. 2, 9, 13.]

To lose flesh gradually; to become lean by pining with sorrow, or by loss of appetite or other cause; to waste away, as flesh; to decay in flesh.

E-MA'CIATE, v.t.

To cause to lose flesh gradually; to waste the flesh and reduce to leanness. Sorrow, anxiety, want of appetite, and disease, often emaciate the most robust bodies.

E-MA'CIA-TED, pp.

Reduced to leanness by a gradual loss of flesh; thin; lean.

E-MA'CIA-TING, ppr.

Wasting the flesh gradually; making lean.

E-MA-CI-A'TION, n.

1. The act of making lean or thin in flesh; or a becoming lean by a gradual waste of flesh.
2. The state of being reduced to leanness.

E-MAC'U-LATE, v.t. [infra.]

To take spots from. [Little used.]

E-MAC-U-LA'TION, n. [L. emaculo, from e and macula, a spot.]

The art or operation of freeing from spots. [Little used.]

EM'A-NANT, a. [L. emanans. See Emanate.]

Issuing or flowing from. Hale.

EM'A-NATE, v.i. [L. emano; e and mano, to flow; Sp. emanar; Fr. emaner; It. emanare. Class Mn, No. 11, 9.]

1. To issue from a source; to flow from; applied to fluids; as, light emanates from the sun; perspirable matter, from animal bodies.
2. To proceed from a source or fountain; as, the powers of government in republics emanate from the people.

EM'A-NA-TING, ppr.

Issuing or flowing from a fountain.

EM-A-NA'TION, n.

1. The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain-head or origin.
2. That which issues, flows or proceeds from any source, substance or body; efflux; effluvium. Light is an emanation from the sun; wisdom, from God; the authority laws, from the supreme power.

EM'A-NA-TIVE, a.

Issuing from another.

E-MAN'CI-PATE, a.

Set at liberty. Cowper.

E-MAN'CI-PATE, v.t. [L. emancipo, from e and mancipium, a slave; manus, hand and capio, to take, as slaves were anciently prisoners taken in war.]

1. To set free from servitude of slavery, by the voluntary act of the proprietor; to liberate; to restore from bondage freedom; as, to emancipate a slave.
2. To set free or restore to liberty; in a general sense.
3. To free from bondage or restraint of any kind; to liberate from subjection, controlling power or influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
4. In ancient Rome, to set a son free from subjection to his father, and give him the capacity of managing his affairs, as if he was of age. Encyc.

E-MAN'CI-PA-TED, pp.

Set free from bondage, slavery, servitude, subjection or dependence; liberated.

E-MAN'CI-PA-TING, ppr.

Setting free from bondage, servitude or dependence; liberating.

E-MAN-CI-PA'TION, n.

The act of setting free from slavery, servitude, subjection or dependence; deliverance from bondage or controlling influence; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves by their proprietors; the emancipation of a son among the Romans; the emancipation of a person from prejudices, or from a servile subjection to authority.

E-MAN-CI-PA'TION-IST, or EMAN'CI-PIST, n.

An advocate for the emancipation of slaves.

E-MAN'CI-PA-TOR, n.

One who emancipates or liberates from bondage or restraint.