LAN 
X.ANCE BA'Y, a bay on the north-weft coaft of Ja¬ 
maica, Lat. 18.27.N. Ion. 78. 14. W. 
LAN'CE-BEARERS’ I'SLAND, or Isle des Lan- 
ciers, a fmall ifland in the South Pacific Ocean, fo named 
by Monfieur Bougainville in 1768. Lat. 18.28. S. Ion. 
138. 10. W. 
LAN'CE la GRA'CE, a town of Louifiana: feventy- 
five miles fouth-fouth-weft of New Madrid. Lat. 35.25. N. 
Ion. -90. 27. W. 
LANCELLOT'TI (John-Paul), an eminent jurift, was 
born at Perugia about the year 1510. He kept a fchool 
of law at his native place, and was engaged by pope Paul 
IV. to draw up an inftitute of canon law, in imitation of 
juftinian’s Inftitutes of civil law. This was firft pub- 
lifhed in 1563 ; it foon went through feveral editions, and 
obtained honourable teftimonies of approbation from fe¬ 
veral men of eminence in the profelfion. It was annexed 
to the body of canon law, and ftill retains its place in the 
recent editions of that compilation. He alfo wrote other 
treatifes on legal fubjeCts, and a life of Bartolus. He died 
at Perugia in 1591. Morert. 
LAN CELOT, oi- Lau'^celot, a Chriftian and fur- 
name of men. 
Lx 4 N'CELOT (Claude), author of feveral ufeful works 
in grammar and the preliminary parts of learning, was 
born at Paris in 1615. The abbe de St. Cyran perfuaded 
Jiim to join the' devout folitaries of the Port-Royal, by 
whom he was employed in teaching mathematics and the 
languages in their fchools, till they were fuppreffed by 
the government. He was afterwards entrufted with the 
education of the young princes of Conti. The death of 
their mother deprived him of this office ; upon which he 
took the habit of St. Benedict in the abbey of St. Cyran. 
Some diffenfions which arofe in this monaftery in 1680 
•produced his exile to Quimperle in Lower Britany, where 
he continued the fame aultere and afcetic way of life which 
lie had followed in the feminary. He died in 1695, with 
a high reputation for fanCtity as well as learning. The 
principal writings of this author are, 1. Nouvelle Me- 
thode pour apprendre la Langue Latine, 8vo. 1664: this 
is the firft work of the kind in which the abfurd practice 
of teaching the rules of the Latin grammar in the Latin 
language is exchanged for the ufe of the vernacular tongue. 
It alfo contains many curious and ufeful particulars of 
information, as to the Roman names, coins, &c. 2. Nou¬ 
velle Methode pour apprendre la Langue Grecque, 1656, 
8vo. This and the preceding have been often reprinted 
with improvements, as likewife abridgments of them. 3. 
Le Jardin des Racines Grecques, 8vo. 1657. 4. An Ita¬ 
lian and Spanifh Grammar. 5. Grammaire generale et 
raifonnee, i2mo. an excellent work, formed on the ideas 
of Dr. Arnauld : it has been tranflated into feveral mo¬ 
dern languages. 6. Delectus Epigrammatum, 2 vols. 
nmo. 1659, with a preface by Nicole. 7. Memoires pour 
fervir a la Vie de St. „Cyran. Moreri. 
LAN'CELY, adj. Suitable to a lance. Not in ufe. —He 
carried his lances, which were ftrong, to give a laucely 
blow. Sidney. 
LANCEOLATE, adj. Oblong, and gradually taper¬ 
ing to an end, like the head of a lance. 
LANCEPESA'DE,/ [from Lancia Jpezzata , Ital. a bro¬ 
ken or fpent lance.] Originally a man at arms, or trooper, 
who, having broken his lance on the enemy, and loft his 
horfe in fight, was entertained as a volunteer affiftant to 
a captain of foot, receiving pay as a trooper, until he 
could remount himfelf. But at length, from being com¬ 
panion to the captain, he was degraded to be an affiftant 
to the corporal ; at prefent does the duty of that officer, 
on the pay of a private foldier, or very little more ; and 
is now vulgarly called lance-corporal. Turner's Pallas Ar- 
mata. 
LANCEROT'TA, one of the Canary Iflands, about 
thirty miles in length, and eight in breadth where wideft. 
It is parted by a ridge of mountains which afford nothing 
J»at pafture for cattle, though the valleys are fruitful, but 
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fandy, and thin in the foil. It abounds in grain, fruits, 
horned cattle, hares, camels, and affes. One great branch 
of the trade of Lancerotta confifts in dried goats’ flelb, 
which the inhabitants fell in great quantities to the neigh¬ 
bouring iflands, under the name of tujfmeta. In the year 
1730, a volcano broke out in this ifland. Cayas, called 
alfo Rubicon, and Lancerotta, the principal town, con¬ 
tains about 200 houfes. It has feveral havens and roads ; 
but there is one at the north-eaft end, where fhips may 
come in from the northward, and lie land-lockf i from all 
winds in 10, 15, and 20, fathoms. The point of the 
ifland is in lat. 29. 8. N. Ion. 13.26. W. 
LAN'CET,yi \lancette, Fr. ] A fmall pointed chirur- 
gical inftrument.—Hippocrates faith, blood-letting ffiould 
be done with broad lancets or fwords, in order to make a , 
large orifice : the manner of opening a vein then was byj 
ftabbing or pertnfion, as in horfes. Arbuthnot. 
LANCE'TI,yi A name given by the ancient laws of 
England to a kind of vaffals, who were obliged to work, 
for the lord one day in a week, from Michaelmas to au¬ 
tumn, either with fork, fpade, or flail, at the option of the 
lord. 
To LANCII, v. a. [lancer , Fr. This word is too often 
written launch : it is only a vocal corruption of lance.'] To 
dart; to caft as a lance; to throw; to let fly. See Tt 
Launch. 
Me, only me, the hand of fortune bore, 
Unbleft to tread that interdicted fliore ; 
When Jove tremendous in the fable deeps 
Lanch'd his red lightning at our lcatter’d ftiips. Pope. 
LAN'CHE, a town of Anterior Pomerania : eleven 
miles fouth-eaft of Bergen. 
LAN'CHING, f. The act of darting any thing from 
the hand ; of putting off into the water ; of taking fcope 
on any fubjeft. 
LAN'CHESTER, a village feven miles north-weft of 
Durham, in the Watling-ftreet road, on the top of one 
hill over-looked by another, and was, no doubt, formerly 
a Roman ftation. It alfo appears by the ruins to have 
been much larger once than it is now, and to have been 
walled round. Here is a handfome church, which before 
the Reformation was endowed with a deanery and prebends. 
LANCIA'NO, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Citra, of 
which it is the capital. It is the fee of an archbilhop, 
ereCted about the middle of the 16th century : eighty- 
five miles eaft-north-eaft of Rome, and eighty-four north 
of Naples. Lat. 42.12. N. Ion. 14. 20. E. 
LANCIE'GO, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Alava : eighteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Vittoria. 
LANCIE'R,yi A foldier armed with a lance. Phillips. 
LANCIF'EROUS, adj. [from lance, and fero , Lat. t® 
bear.] Bearing a lance; carrying a fpear. 
To LAN'CINATE, v. a. [from lancino, Lat.] To tear; 
to rend; to lacerate. 
LANCINA'TION, f. Tearing; laceration. 
LANC'ING,y.‘ The a£t of opening with a lancet; the 
wound made by a lancet. 
LAN'CING, a village in Suflex, one mile from Shore- 
ham . 
LANCI'SI (John-Maria), an eminent Italian phyfi- 
cian, was bom of a family in trade at Rome, in 1654. 
His education was firft directed, under the fociety of je- 
fuits, to the profeffion of theology ; but, his inclination 
being turned towards medicine, he applied with great ar¬ 
dour to all the itudies connected with it, and in 1672 re¬ 
ceived the degree of doctor of philofophy and phyfic. 
In 1684 he was appointed to the chair of anatomy in the 
college of la Sapienza: he afterwards occupied the chairs 
of theoretical and practical medicine in the fame college. 
He did not negleft the purfuits of polite literature; and 
the celebrated Academy of the Arcadi, at Rome, aggre¬ 
gated him to their fociety-. He was alfo a member of the 
Imperial Academy Naturas Curioforum, of the Inftitute 
of Bologna, of the Royal Society of London, and of other 
learned 
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