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English
Etymology
From French élancer (Old French eslancier), from es- (Latin ex) + French lancer (“to dart, throw”), from lance.
Pronunciation
Verb
elance (third-person singular simple present elances, present participle elancing, simple past and past participle elanced)
- (transitive, archaic) To throw like a lance; to hurl.
a. 1722 (date written), Matthew Prior, “The Second Hymn of Callimachus to Apollo”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior , volume I, London: W Strahan, , published 1779, →OCLC, page 338: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.
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