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advantageous, a.|ædvənˈteɪdʒəs|
Also 6–7 advantagious.
[ad. Fr. avantageux, -euse, f. avantage: see advantage and -ous. The common 17th c. spelling is evidently due to looking upon the word as formed from the med.L. avantagium, a latinized form of avantage. Cf. contagious, litigious.]
1. Of advantage; furnishing advantages; profitable, useful, opportune, beneficial, favourable.
1598Florio, Auantaggioso, aduantageous, hauing ods or aduantage. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. iv. 22, I doe not flye; but aduantagious care Withdrew me from the oddes of multitude. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 368 Here perhaps Som advantagious act may be achiev'd By sudden onset. 1766Burke Late Administ. Wks. II. 5 Making an advantageous treaty of commerce with Russia. c1860Maurice Mor. & Metaph. Philos. IV. ix. §37. 559 Condillac is an advantageous and admirable type of the school.
b. Const. to, for (unto obs.).
1610Shakes. Temp. ii. i. 49 Heere is euery thing aduantageous to life. 1618Raleigh Rem. (1664) 149 Advantagious also, as well for the publick weal, as the private person. 1630Prynne Anti-Armin. 123 What can be more aduantagious vnto Satan. 1767Junius Lett. viii. 33 A wise doctrine..equally advantageous to the king and his subjects. 1868Peard Water-farming xiii. 131 Heat is agreeable, if not advantageous to most fresh-water fish.
†2. Apt to take advantage, overreaching, sharp. (Cotgr. Avantageux, advantageous, also very forward, full of forwardness.) Obs. rare.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 226 They [Jews] are a subtile and advantagious people and wonderfully eager of gaine. |