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   Advantage , n. [OE. avantage, avauntage, F. avantage, fr. avant before. See Advance, and cf. Vantage.]
   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.
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   The advantages of a close alliance.
   Macaulay.
   
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   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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   Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
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   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.
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   (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 a “vantage ground” for 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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   Advantage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advantaged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Advantaging .] [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.
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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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