Part 196

<hw>Ad*van"tage*a*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Advantageous.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Advantageous</h1> <Xpage=25>

<hw>Ad`van*ta"geous</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>avantageux</ets>, fr. <ets>avantage</ets>.]</ety> <def>Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; <as>as, an <ex>advantageous</ex> position; trade is <ex>advantageous</ex> to a nation.</as></def>

<blockquote><b>Advabtageous</b> comparison with any other country. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and <b>advantageous</b> a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. <i>Chesterfield.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Advantageously</h1> <Xpage=25>

<hw>Ad`van*ta"geous*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Profitably; with advantage.</def>

<h1>Advantageousness</h1> <Xpage=25>

<hw>Ad`van*ta"geous*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Profitableness.</def>

<h1>Advene</h1> <Xpage=25>

<hw>Ad*vene"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>advenire</ets>; <ets>ad + venire</ets> to come: cf. F. <ets>avenir</ets>, <ets>advenir</ets>. See <er>Come</er>.]</ety> <def>To accede, or come (<i>to</i>); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Where no act of the will <b>advenes</b> as a coefficient. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Advenient</h1> <Xpage=25>

<hw>Ad*ven"ient</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>adviens</ets>, p. pr.]</ety> <def>Coming from outward causes; superadded. <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Advent</h1> <Xpage=25>

<hw>Ad`vent</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>adventus</ets>, fr. <ets>advenire</ets>, <ets>adventum</ets>: cf. F. <ets>avent</ets>. See <er>Advene</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.</def>

<cs><col>Advent Sunday</col> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld>, <cd>the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30).</cd></cs>

<i>Shipley.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The first or the expected second coming of Christ.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Coming; any important arrival; approach.</def>

<blockquote>Death's dreadful <b>advent</b>. <i>Young.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Expecting still his <b>advent</b> home. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Adventist</h1> <Xpage=25>

<hw>Ad"vent*ist</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also <altname>Second Adventists</altname>.</def>

<i>Schaff-Herzog Encyc.</i>

<h1>Adventitious</h1> <Xpage=25>

<hw>Ad`ven*ti"tious</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>adventitius</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.</def>

<blockquote>To things of great dimensions, if we annex an <b>adventitious</b> idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>