Protection granted in emergent danger.
Burke.
Emergent year (Chron.), the epoch or date from which any people begin to compute their time or dates; as, the emergent year of Christendom is that of the birth of Christ; the emergent year of the United States is that of the declaration of their independence.
-- E*mer"gent*ly, adv. -- E*mer"gent*ness, n. [R.]
Em"er*il (?), n. 1. Emery. [Obs.] Drayton.