Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Emerge \E*merge"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Emerged}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Emerging}.] [L. emergere, emersum; e out + mergere to
   dip, plunge. See {Merge}.]
   To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which
   anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue
   and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the
   sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge
   from poverty or obscurity. ``Thetis . . . emerging from the
   deep.'' --Dryden.

         Those who have emerged from very low, some from the
         lowest, classes of society.              --Burke.