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emit, v.|ɪˈmɪt|
[ad. L. ēmittĕ-re to send forth, f. ē out + mittĕ-re to send.]
trans. To send forth: in certain special senses. (Not used with personal obj.)
1. To send forth as a stream or emanation.
a. To send forth, discharge (as a liquid or plastic substance); to exude (juices, etc.).
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xiii. 137 [The liquid secreted by toads] is emitted aversely or backward. 1712Pope Spect. No. 408 ⁋3 So pure a Fountain emits no..troubled Waters. 1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 249 A tree which emits sap copiously from a wound. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 209/1 The threads by which the spiders suspend themselves..are emitted from the extremity of the abdomen. 1879Sir J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. iii. 71 The aphis emits a drop of sweet fluid.
b. To give off, throw out (‘effluvia’, light, heat, gases, flames, sparks, etc.).
1626Bacon Sylva §259 Both of them..do not appear to emit any Corporal substance. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. 227 By effluvia and spirits that are emitted. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. IV. 452 The water..emits an ill smell. 1794J. Hutton Philos. Light, etc. 206 Those bodies may be heated so as to emit light. 1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 64 The earth emits flames. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 89 An adult man..emits..carbonic acid gas by the skin.
fig.1805Foster Ess. i. ii. 27 Emitting sentiment at every pore.
¶ intr.
1886Daily News 16 Sept. 7/2 Summoned..for..permitting..smells to emit from his stable.
c. transf.
1754Hume Hist. Eng. I. iii. 67 That multitude of nations which she had successively emitted.
†2. To throw out as an offshoot. Obs.
1660Sharrock Vegetables 117 More fresh sprouts..are emitted. 1676Worlidge Cyder (1691) 57 Before its wound be healed, and new fibres emitted. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 105 This plant..emits a few..stalks.
3. To give forth (sound).
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxxii. 339 They emit a grating noise. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. §1. 224 A bell struck in a vacuum emits no sound. 1876Smiles Sc. Natur. vii. (ed. 4) 107 It did not emit any cry, such as the hare does.
4. To utter, give expression to (a statement, opinions, etc.).
1753Stewart's Trial App. 4 All these declarations were emitted by the..persons..mentioned. 1805Foster Ess. iii. i. 5 Emit plenty of antipathy in a few syllables. 1818Mill Brit. India II. iv. vii. 261 Complaints were..emitted of the scarcity of money. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 179 How could a man..emit [thoughts] in a shape bordering so closely on the absurd?
†5. To issue, publish (books, documents, notices). Obs.
1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 361 Papers and books emitted for cleareing the wickednes of the Prelatt's apostasie. 1723Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 6 The public papers emitted that and next year. 1726Ayliffe Parerg. 180 A Citation.. ought to be..emitted by the Judges Authority. 1779Johnson Life Pope Wks. IV. 23 Pope having now emitted his proposals. 1847Sir W. Hamilton Letter 37 But this declaration, now emitted, is contradicted by that very declaration, emitted in February.
6. To issue formally and by authority (edicts, proclamations; also, and now chiefly, paper currency, bills, etc.).
1649Bp. Guthrie Mem. (1702) 103 A Declaration Emitted by the English Parliament. 1672Clarendon Ess. in Tracts (1727) 265 Lewis..condemned that excommunication and the pope that emitted it. 1761–2Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxxi. 279 The edicts emitted..still wanted much of the authority of laws. 1791T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) III. 268 A dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted. 1863Dicey Federal St. I. 124 No State shall..emit bills of credit.
†7. To send forth, let fly, discharge (a missile).
1704Swift Batt. Bks. (1711) 263 Having emitted his Launce against so great a Leader. c1720Prior 2nd Hymn of Callimachus to Apollo Poems 244 Lest..the far⁓shooting God emit His fatal arrows. |
