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1567 T. Harding Reioindre to M. Iewels Replie against Masse xv. f. 238 Which kind of Argumentes they must needes vse..who by opening the truth of any question by due distinctions, see their false doctrine confuted, and therfore make their apparent aduantage of confusion.

1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery iii. xii. 497 To make aduantage of the indifferencie of the word.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) I. 268 Laban..made advantages upon him, deluded him.

1657 R. Sanderson 14 Serm. Pref. sig. B4^v The Papists make a great advantage..of these home-differences.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 25 We ought..to make our own Advantage of that Knowledge, and not to envy it to others.

1746 D. Hume Let. 4 Oct. (1932) I. 95 The Ministry, who were willing to make some Advantage of so considerable a sea and land Armament, sent us to seek Adventures on the Coast of France.

a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) III. vii. 174 All made advantage of English easiness and dissipation.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. iii. 95 Inclined to make their advantage of his necessities.

1844 W. M. Thackeray Barry Lyndon i. vii, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 403/2 These little hints he carried to his uncle, the minister of police, who, no doubt, made his advantage of them.

1885 Outing Oct. 90/2 It is true that you might make advantage of the position.

1922 Teachers College Rec. May 217 We would be derelict if we did not try to make advantage of the opportunity.

1971 New Scientist 7 Jan. 7/3 The Stanford workers..can make advantage of this situation to cancel out the perturbing effects of the Earth's ionosphere.

1990 J. Fjeldså & N. Krabbe Birds of High Andes 37/1 By focusing on the ecosystem rather than on its species we make advantage of the self-regulating property of the ecosystem.