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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_137061" /> ==
 
<p> (1): </p> <p> (n.) A sudden flash of light or splendor. </p> <p> (2): </p> <p> (v. i.) To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash. </p> <p> (3): </p> <p> (n.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. </p> <p> (4): </p> <p> (n.) A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse. </p> <p> (5): </p> <p> (v. i.) To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. </p> <p> (6): </p> <p> (v. i.) To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; - often with at. </p> <p> (7): </p> <p> (v. i.) To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. </p> <p> (8): </p> <p> (v. t.) To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye. </p> <p> (9): </p> <p> (v. t.) To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. </p> <p> (10): </p> <p> (n.) An incidental or passing thought or allusion. </p> <p> (11): </p> <p> (v. i.) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". </p>
Lance <ref name="term_47912" />
       
<p> ( '''''Λόγχη''''' , ''Cultellus),'' a liturgical instrument of the Greek Church, in the shape of a small knife formed like a spear, is used in the common Greek rite in the preparatory office of prothesis, to divide the host from the holy loaf previous to consecration. This earlier fraction, the primitive antiquity of which is doubtful, is distinctly symbolical, and has no reference to the subsequent distribution, for which another fraction has always been made. The typical allusion to the circumstances of our Lord's [[Passion]] receives greater force and vividness in the Greek Church, from the use of the "holy spear" for the division of the loaf, as commemorative of the piercing of our Lord's body by the Roman soldier. The priest makes four cuts to separate the host from the oblation, and also stabs it more than once, accompanying every cut or stab with appropriate texts of Scripture, e.g. "He was led as a lamb to the slaughter," "One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side," etc. </p> <p> The use of the holy spear is not found in the purely Oriental liturgies, e.g. those of the [[Syrians]] and Egyptians, a fact which leads Renaudot to question whether the rite is of primitive antiquity, since these churches borrowed their discipline from the Greek Church in the earliest ages. It is entirely unknown in the Western Church, </p>
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_61181" /> ==
 
<p> LANCE, n. L. lancea Gr. </p> <p> A spear, an offensive weapon in form of a half pike, used by the ancients and thrown by the hand. It consisted of the shaft or handle, the wings and the dart. </p> <p> LANCE, </p> 1. To pierce with a lance or with a sharp pointed instrument. <p> - [[Seized]] the due victim, and with fury lanc'd her back. </p> 2. To pierce or cut to open with a lancet as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
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== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67311" /> ==
<p> <i> kidon. A </i> light spear that could be thrown at an enemy. Jeremiah 50:42 . </p>
       
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_47907" /> ==
<p> (כּידוֹן, kidon', so called from its destructive use, Jeremiah 1:42; elsewhere usually "spear"), a javelin or smaller kind of missile weapon, in distinction from the long-handled spear (חֲנית, chanith'), and the simple dart (שֶׁלִח, she'lach). (See [[Armor]]). </p>
       
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<ref name="term_47912"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/lance+(2) Lance from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_137061"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/lance Lance from Webster's Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_61181"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/king-james-dictionary/lance Lance from King James Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_67311"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/lance Lance from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_47907"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/lance Lance from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
       
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Latest revision as of 10:01, 15 October 2021

Lance [1]

( Λόγχη , Cultellus), a liturgical instrument of the Greek Church, in the shape of a small knife formed like a spear, is used in the common Greek rite in the preparatory office of prothesis, to divide the host from the holy loaf previous to consecration. This earlier fraction, the primitive antiquity of which is doubtful, is distinctly symbolical, and has no reference to the subsequent distribution, for which another fraction has always been made. The typical allusion to the circumstances of our Lord's Passion receives greater force and vividness in the Greek Church, from the use of the "holy spear" for the division of the loaf, as commemorative of the piercing of our Lord's body by the Roman soldier. The priest makes four cuts to separate the host from the oblation, and also stabs it more than once, accompanying every cut or stab with appropriate texts of Scripture, e.g. "He was led as a lamb to the slaughter," "One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side," etc.

The use of the holy spear is not found in the purely Oriental liturgies, e.g. those of the Syrians and Egyptians, a fact which leads Renaudot to question whether the rite is of primitive antiquity, since these churches borrowed their discipline from the Greek Church in the earliest ages. It is entirely unknown in the Western Church,

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