emanant

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Ab hac morbi sponte saepe emanant, nulla alia cogente causa 1349.

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  1. Flowing, issuing, or proceeding from something else; becoming apparent by an effect. The most wise counsel and purpose of Almighty God terminated in those two great transient or emanant acts or works, the work of creation and providence. Sir M. Hale, Orig. of Mankind, p. 35.
  2. In mathematics, the result of operating any number of times upon a quantic with the operator (x'd/dx + y'd/dy +, etc.). J. J. Sylvester, 1853. Cayley (1856) defines it as one of the coefficients of the quantic formed by substituting for x, y, etc., the facients of the quantic to which the emanant belongs, lx + mx', ly + my', etc., and then considering l and m as the two facients of the new quantic so obtained.

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  1. from Latin emanan(t-)s, present participle of emanare, flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from: see emanate.
 

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