Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
EMANATE
exhale, give forth, emanate
(verb) give out (breath or an odor); “The chimney exhales a thick smoke”
emanate
(verb) proceed or issue forth, as from a source; “Water emanates from this hole in the ground”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
emanate (third-person singular simple present emanates, present participle emanating, simple past and past participle emanated)
(intransitive) To come from a source; issue from.
(transitive, rare) To send or give out; manifest.
Anagrams
• enemata, manatee
Source: Wiktionary
Em"a*nate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emanated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emanating.] Etym: [L. emanare, emanatum, to emanate; e out + manare to flow, prob. for madnare, and akin to madere to be wet, drip, madidus wet, drenched, drunk, Gr. mad to boil, matta drunk. Cf. Emane.]
1. To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.
2. To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate. That subsisting from of government from which all special laws emanate. De Quincey.
Syn.
– To flow; arise; proceed; issue; originate.
Em"a*nate, a.
Definition: Issuing forth; emanant. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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