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.