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Advantage

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

    Give me advantage of some brief discourse.
    Shak.

    The advantages of a close alliance.
    Macaulay.

  2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.

    Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.
    2 Cor. ii. 11.

  3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
  4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
    [Obs.]

    And with advantage means to pay thy love.
    Shak.

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

    Syn. -- Advantage, Advantageous, Benefit, Beneficial. We speak of a thing as a benefit, or as beneficial, when it is simply productive of good; as, the benefits of early discipline; the beneficial effects of adversity. We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as advantageous, 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 benefits and the advantages of early education; between a beneficial and an advantageous investment of money.


Advantage

Advantage (advantage)
v. t.
Ad*van"tage
  1. To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.

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

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

    To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]














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