ADVANTAGE

ADV'ANTAGE, noun 1. Any state, condition, or circumstance, favorable to success, prosperity, interest, or reputation.The enemy had the advantage of elevated ground.2. Benefit; gain; profit.What advantage will it be to thee? Job 35:3.There exists, in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage 3. Means to an end; opportunity; convenience for obtaining benefit; as, student enjoy great advantages for improvement.The General took advantage of his enemy's negligence.4. Favorable state or circumstances; as, jewels set to advantage 5. Superiority, or prevalence over; with of or over.Lest Satan should get an advantage of us, (or over us.) 2 Corinthians 2:11.6. Superiority, or that which gives it; as, the advantage of a good constitution.7. Interest; increase; overplus.And with advantage means to pay thy love. obsolete 8. Additional circumstance to give preponderation.ADV'ANTAGE, verb transitive 1. To benefit; as to yield profit or gain.What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? Luke 9:25.2. To promote; to advance the interest of.

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advantage. Advantage, v.t. to benefit, promote, improve

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Ad‐van″tage (?; 61, 48), n. [[OE. avantage, avauntage, F. avantage, fr. avant before. See Advance, and cf. Vantage.]] 1. 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. 2. Superiority; mastery; — with of or over.
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. 2 Cor. ii. 11. 3. 3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
4. 4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shak. Advantage ground, vantage ground. 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. 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.