Advantage

Definition of Advantage

Ad`van´tage

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.

Superiority; mastery; - with of or over.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.

- 2 Cor. ii. 11.

Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

And with advantage means to pay thy love.

- Shak.

(Tennis) The first point scored after deuce.

Advantage ground
vantage ground.

To have the advantage of
to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. - Clarendon.

To take advantage of
to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit. - Sheridan.

v. t.

To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.

[imp. & p. p. Advantaged ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Advantaging ( ).]

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.

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