Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MAN'I-FEST, a. [L. manifestus, Ir. meanan, plain, clear; minighim, to make smooth, to polish, to explain. Clearness may be from polishing, or from opening, expanding, extending.]

1. Plain; open; clearly visible to the eye or obvious to the understanding; apparent; not obscure or difficult to be seen or understood. From the testimony, the truth we conceive to be manifest. Thus manifest to sight the god appeared. Dryden. That which may be known of God is manifest in them. Rom. i.
2. Detected; with of. Calistho there stood manifest of shame. [Unusual.] Dryden.