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elanced

elanced is the simple past and past participle of elance.

Meaning of elance

Verb

elance (third-person singular simple present elances, present participle elancing, simple past and past participle elanced)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To throw like a lance; to hurl.
    • Iö! while thy unerring hand elanc'd / Another, and another dart; the people / Joyfully repeated Iö! Iö Pean! / Elance the dart, Apollo: for the ſafety, / And health of man, gracious thy mother bore thee.a. 1722 (date written), Matthew Prior, “The Second Hymn of Callimachus to Apollo”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC...

Questions about elanced

What is elanced the simple past and past participle of?
Elanced is the simple past and past participle of elance.

Words near elanced in the dictionary

  1. Elamo-
  2. Elamo-Dravidian
  3. elamping
  4. elan
  5. elance
  6. elanced
  7. elances
  8. elancing
  9. eland
  10. elands
  11. Elandsberg dwarf chameleon

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