GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

last match results

Found 2 definitions

1.       
   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.
   1913 Webster
   To raise; to elevate. [Archaic]
   1913 Webster
   They . . . advanced their eyelids.
   Shak.
   
   1913 Webster
   To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
   1913 Webster
   Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes.
   Esther iii. 1.
   
   1913 Webster
   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.
   1913 Webster
   To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
   1913 Webster
   Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own.
   Pope.
   
   1913 Webster
   To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
   1913 Webster
   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.
   1913 Webster
   To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
   1913 Webster
   To extol; to laud. [Obs.]
   1913 Webster
   Greatly advancing his gay chivalry.
   Spenser.
   
   1913 Webster
   Syn. -- To raise; elevate; exalt; aggrandize; improve; heighten; accelerate; allege; adduce; assign.
   1913 Webster
   
         
       

2.       
   Advanced , a.
   In the van or front.
   1913 Webster
   In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.
   1913 Webster
   Far on in life or time.
   1913 Webster
   A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles.
   Hawthorne.
   
   1913 Webster
   Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.
   1913 Webster