advantageouslyadv.

1562 J. Shute tr. A. Cambini in Two Comm. Turcks i. f. 16 He commaunded to make certaine mines, directly vnder certaine of the bulwarcks of ye towne, & to y^e ende y^e his people moughte fighte the more aduantagiously.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxi. 295 For Writers aduantagiously are of the Liuing reade.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 23 The Land..seated so advantagiously for traffique,..and vicinating those golden countries of Mozambiq', Guiloa [etc.].

1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 16 That great and desirable Rich Trade of Fishing..which so advantageously offers it self.

1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. I. 52 The scripture in several places speaks advantageously of their cavalry.

1789 S. Cathalan Let. 10 Sept. in T. Jefferson Papers (1958) XV. 409 Had it arived 15 days sooner, I could sale it more advantageously.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xviii. 208 The strength of a labourer may be advantageously employed in ascending a given height by a flight of steps.

1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer 133 Hector compares..very advantageously with the worthless Paris.

1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 6/1 In a mineralised country like South Africa, mining was a pursuit which could be very advantageously exploited.

1962 J. H. Simpson & R. S. Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors xi. 246 The fourth method, direct coupling, may be used advantageously..in the coupling of a driver to a power stage.

1999 Alumnus (National Univ. of Singapore) July 19/1 Taiwan is more advantageously positioned than Singapore.

1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xv. xcviii. 388 Too aduantagiously from out our Rubrick they vnyoke.

1990 G. Rohlehr Calypso & Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad iv. 191 In 1931, just remember well, Why the prisoners at Carrera had to rebel... It's because they were treated advantageously.