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   Advance , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advanced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Advancing (#).] [OE. avancen, avauncen, F. avancer, fr. a supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante (F. avant) before. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be fr. L. ad. See Avaunt.]
   To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
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   To raise; to elevate. [Archaic]
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   They . . . advanced their eyelids.
   Shak.
   
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   To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
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   Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes.
   Esther iii. 1.
   
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   To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.
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   To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
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   Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own.
   Pope.
   
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   To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
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   To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.
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   To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
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   To extol; to laud. [Obs.]
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   Greatly advancing his gay chivalry.
   Spenser.
   
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   Syn. -- To raise; elevate; exalt; aggrandize; improve; heighten; accelerate; allege; adduce; assign.
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   Advance, v. i.
   To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
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   To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
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   To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
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   Advanced to a level with ancient peers.
   Prescott.
   
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   Advance, n. [Cf. F. avance, fr. avancer. See Advance, v.]
   The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
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   Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
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   An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
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   The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.
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   [He] made the like advances to the dissenters.
   Swift.
   
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   A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.
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   I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.
   Jay.
   
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   The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made.
   Kent.
   
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   In advance (a) In front; before. (b) Beforehand; before an equivalent is received. (c) In the state of having advanced money on account; as, A is in advance to B a thousand dollars or pounds.
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   Advance , a. Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.
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