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Ad*van"tage (?; 61, 48), 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.
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Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak.
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The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay.
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2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
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Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. 2 Cor. ii. 11.
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3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
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4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [Obs.]
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And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shak.
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5. (Tennis) The first point scored after deuce.
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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.
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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 avantage groundfor 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.
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Ad*van"tage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advantaged (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Advantaging (&unr_;).] [F. avantager, fr. avantage. See Advance.] To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
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The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him. Fuller.
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What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? Luke ix. 25.
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To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]
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