Part 195

<blockquote>True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint <b>advancement</b> of the virtue and happiness of the people. <i>Horsley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See <er>Advance</er>, 5.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Settlement on a wife, or jointure.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Advancer</h1> <Xpage=25>

<hw>Ad*van"cer</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who advances; a promoter.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A second branch of a buck's antler.</def>

<i>Howell.</i>

<h1>Advancive</h1> <Xpage=25>

<hw>Ad*van"cive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to advance.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Advantage</h1> <Xpage=25>

<hw>Ad*van"tage</hw> <tt>(?; 61, 48)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>avantage</ets>, <ets>avauntage</ets>, F. <ets>avantage</ets>, fr. <ets>avant</ets> before. See <er>Advance</er>, and cf. <er>Vantage</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; <as>as, the enemy had the <ex>advantage</ex> of a more elevated position</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Give me <b>advantage</b> of some brief discourse. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>advantages</b> of a close alliance. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Superiority; mastery; -- with <i>of</i> or <i>over</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Lest Satan should get an <b>advantage</b> of us. <i>2 Cor. ii. 11.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; <as>as, the <ex>advantage</ex> of a good constitution</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>And with <b>advantage</b> means to pay thy love. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Advantage ground</col>, <cd>vantage ground. <mark>[R.]</mark> <i>Clarendon</i>.</cd> -- <col>To have the advantage of</col> (any one), <cd>to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge.</cd> "You <i>have the advantage of<i> me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." <i>Sheridan</i>. -- <col>To take advantage of</col>, <cd>to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- <er>Advantage</er>, <er>Advantageous</er>, <er>Benefit</er>, <er>Beneficial</er>.</syn> <usage> We speak of a thing as a <i>benefit</i>, or as <i>beneficial</i>, when it is simply productive of good; as, the <i>benefits</i> of early discipline; the <i>beneficial</i> effects of adversity. We speak of a thing as an <i>advantage</i>, or as <i>advantageous</i>, when it affords us the means of getting forward, and places us on a "vantage ground" for further effort. Hence, there is a difference between the <i>benefits</i> and the <i>advantages</i> of early education; between a <i>beneficial</i> and an <i>advantageous</i> investment of money.</usage>

<h1>Advantage</h1> <Xpage=25>

<hw>Ad*van"tage</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Advantaged</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Advantaging</er> <tt>(#)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>avantager</ets>, fr. <ets>avantage</ets>. See <er>Advance</er>.]</ety> <def>To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.</def>

<blockquote>The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, <b>advantaged</b> his adversaries against him. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>What is a man <b>advantaged</b>, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? <i>Luke ix. 25.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To advantage one's self of</col>, <cd>to avail one's self of. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Advantageable</h1> <Xpage=25>