EMICANT, em'i-kant, _adj._ beaming forth.--_n._ EMIC[=A]'TION.
EMICTION, e-mik'shun, _n._ the discharging of urine: urine.--_adj._
EMIC'TORY, promoting the flow of urine. [L. _eming[)e]re_, _emictum_--_e_,
out, _ming[)e]re_, to make water.]
EMIGRATE, em'i-gr[=a]t, _v.i._ and _v.t._ to remove from one country to
another as a place of abode.--_adj._ EM'IGRANT, emigrating or having
emigrated.--_n._ one who emigrates.--_n._ EMIGR[=A]'TION.--_adj._
EMIGR[=A]'TIONAL.--_n._ EMIGR[=A]'TIONIST, an advocate or promoter of
emigration.--_adj._ EMIGR[=A]'TORY.--_n._ EMIGRÉ ([=a]-m[=e]-gr[=a]), a
royalist who quitted France during the Revolution. [L. _emigr[=a]re_,
_-[=a]tum_--_e_, from, _migr[=a]re_, to remove.]
EMINENT, em'i-nent, _adj._ rising above others: conspicuous: distinguished:
exalted in rank or office.--_ns._ EM'INENCE, EM'INENCY, a part eminent or
rising above the rest: a rising ground: height: distinction: a title of
honour: homage: a title given in 1631 to cardinals, till then styled Most
Illustrious.--_adj._ EMINEN'TIAL.--_adv._ EM'INENTLY.--EMINENT DOMAIN
(_dominium eminens_), the right by which the supreme authority in a state
may compel a proprietor to part with what is his own for the public use.
[L. _eminens_, _-entis_, pr.p. of _emin[=e]re_--_e_, out, _min[=e]re_, to
project.]
EMIR, em-[=e]r', or [=e]'mir, _n._ a title given in the East and in the
north of Africa to all independent chieftains, and also to all the supposed
descendants of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima.--_n._ EM'IRATE, the
office of an emir. [Ar. _am[=i]r_, ruler.]
EMIT, e-mit', _v.t._ to send out: to throw or give out: in issue: to utter
(a declaration):--_pr.p._ emit'ting; _pa.p._ emit'ted.--_n._ EM'ISSARY, one
sent out on a secret mission: a spy: an underground channel by which the
water of a lake escapes.--_adj._ that is sent forth.--_n._ EMIS'SION, the
act of emitting: that which is issued at one time.--_adjs._ EMIS'SIVE,
EMIS'SORY, emitting, sending out.--EMISSION THEORY, the theory that all
luminous bodies emit with equal velocities a number of elastic corpuscles,
which travel in straight lines, are reflected, and are refracted. [L.
_emitt[)e]re_, _emissum_--_e_, out of, _mitt[)e]re_, to send.]
EMMANUEL, em-an'[=u]-el, IMMANUEL, im-, _n._ the symbolical name of the
child announced by Isaiah (Isa. vii. 14), and applied to the Messiah (Matt.
i. 23). [Heb.,--_im_, with, _anu_, us, _el_, God.]
EMMARBLE, em-mär'bl, _v.t._ to turn to marble, to petrify. [_Em_ and
_marble_.]
EMMENAGOGUES, em-en'a-gogz, _n.pl._ medicines intended to restore, or to
bring on for the first time, the menses.--_adj._ EMMENAGOG'IC
(-goj'ik).--_n._ EMMENOL'OGY, knowledge about menstruation. [Gr.
_emm[=e]na_, menses, _ag[=o]gos_, drawing forth.]