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Definition of Elanced
1. elance [v] - See also: elance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elanced
Literary usage of Elanced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and Uncommon Words by William Toone (1832)
"... elanced, must ever fly. PRIOR. ELD (S. eald), a general term for old age and
decrepitude, and sometimes for old persons. To elden folke had made her eld ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1886)
"We have," he says, " but elanced at the progress of prose in place of those
metrical forms which in ihe absence of writing supplied ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... elanced on the condition of the legislature at home, and the hazards which it
ran from the influx of lawyers into the House. ..."
4. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1803)
"... Are not his aureate shafts elanced around, 'Till, by her twinkling train
distinctly known, His Sister meek, with paler glories crown'd, ..."
5. The Works of Cornelius Tacitus: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes by Cornelius Tacitus, Arthur Murphy (1836)
"... thinking himself elanced at, Mid, Since he makes me another AIRBUS, I will
make him an AJAX, meaning, that he would force him to destroy himself. ..."
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