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advantage

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). ()

And with advantage means to pay thy love. (Shak.)

5. (Tennis) The first point scored after deuce. ()

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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v. t. [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.] ()