Advantage

Advantage - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

ADV'ANTAGE, n.

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.

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 Cor 2.

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. Obs.

8. Additional circumstance to give preponderation.

ADV'ANTAGE, v.t.

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.

2. To promote; to advance the interest of.

ad-van'-taj (cakhan): In Job 35:3 is interpreted in succeeding clause as "profit." In Ro 3:1 perissos, is likewise interpreted by a paraphrase in the next sentence. the Revised Version (British and American) prefers to render pleonekteo by "take advantage," where the King James Version has "defraud" (2Co 7:2), or "make gain of" (2Co 12:17; compare 2Co 2:11). In Jude 1:16 "advantage" (opheleia) means "profit."