Advancer
(Ad*van"cer) n.
1. One who advances; a promoter.
2. A second branch of a buck's antler. Howell.
Advancive
(Ad*van"cive) a. Tending to advance. [R.]
Advantage
(Ad*van"tage) n. [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 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
(Ad*van"tage), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advantaged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Advantaging ] [F. avantager,
fr. avantage. See Advance.] 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.]
Advantageable
(Ad*van"tage*a*ble) a. Advantageous. [Obs.]
