More , v. t. To make more; to
increase. [Obs.]
Gower.
More , adv. 1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree. (a)
With a verb or participle.
Admiring more
The riches of
Heaven's pavement.
Milton.
(b) With
an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form
the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.
Happy here, and more happy hereafter.
Bacon. &fist; Double comparatives were common among writers of the Elizabeth period, and for some time
later; as, more brighter; more
dearer.
The duke of Milan
And his more braver daughter.
Shak.
2. In addition; further; besides; again.
Yet once more, O ye
laurels, and once more,
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,
I come to pluck
your berries harsh and crude.
Milton. More and more, with continual increase. "Amon trespassed more and more." 2 Chron. xxxiii. 23. - - The more, to a greater degree; by an
added quantity; for a reason already specified. -- The more -- the more, by how much more -- by so much more. "The more he
praised it in himself, the more he seems to suspect that in very
deed it was
not in him."
Milton. -- To be no more, to have ceased to be; as, Cassius is no more; Troy is no more.
Those oracles which set the world
in flames,
Nor ceased to burn till
kingdoms were no more.
Byron.
More , n.
1. A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what
it is compared with.
And
the children of Israel did so,
and gathered, some more, some less.
Ex. xvi.
17. 2. That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount.
They that would have more and more can never have enough.
L'Estrange. O! That pang where more than madness lies.
Byron. Any more. (a) Anything or something additional or further; as, I do not need any more. (b) Adverbially:
Further; beyond a certain time; as, do not think any more about it. -- No more, not anything more; nothing in addition. -- The more and
less, the high and low. [Obs.]
Shak. "All cried, both less and more." Chaucer.
More , a., compar. [Positive wanting;
superl. Most (mōst).]
[OE. more,
mare, and (orig. neut. and adv.) mo, ma, AS. māra, and (as neut. and adv.) mā; akin to D. meer, OS. mēr, G.
mehr, OHG. mēro, mēr, Icel. meiri,
meirr, Dan. meere, meer, Sw. mera, mer, Goth. maiza, a., mais,
adv., and perh. to L. major greater, compar. of magnus great, and magis, adv., more.
√103. Cf. Most, uch, Major.] 1. Greater; superior; increased; as:
(a) Greater in
quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like;
with the singular.
He gat more money.
Chaucer. If we procure not to ourselves more woe.
Milton. &fist; More, in this sense, was formerly used in connection with some other qualifying word, -- a, the, this, their, etc., -- which now requires the substitution of
greater, further, or the like, for more.
Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height,
Do make them music for their more delight.
Spenser.
The more
part knew not wherefore they were come together.
Acts xix. 32. Wrong not that wrong with a
more contempt.
Shak.
(b) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural.
The people of the children of Israel are more and mighter than we.
Ex. i. 9. 2. Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more worlds to conquer.
With open arms received one poet more.
Pope.
More , n. [AS. more, moru; akin to G. möhre carrot, OHG.
moraha, morha.]
A root. [Obs.] Chaucer.
More (mōr),
n. [AS. mōr. See
Moor a waste.]
A hill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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