Relating to or characterized by emanation; of or concerning something that flows out or originates from a source.
From emanation + -al suffix (meaning 'of or relating to'). This learned adjective developed in philosophical texts to describe processes or systems involving emanation.
Medieval Christian and Islamic philosophers fiercely debated 'emanational' cosmology—disagreeing about whether creation was emanational (flowing out from God) or creational (deliberately made by God's will).
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