Ad*vance" (&?;), a.
Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body
of an army;
advance payment,
or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.
Ad*vance" , n. [Cf. F. avance, fr. avancer. See Advance, v.]
1. The act of
advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
2. Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
3. An addition to the price;
rise in price or value; as, an
advance on the prime cost of goods.
4. The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.
[He] made the like advances to the dissenters.
Swift.
5.
A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or
stock, or on
loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.
I shall, with
pleasure, make the necessary
advances.
Jay.
The account was made up with intent to show what
advances had been made.
Kent.
In advance (a) In front; before. (b) Beforehand; before an equivalent is received.
(c) In the state of
having advanced money on account; as, A
is in advance to B a thousand
dollars or pounds.
Ad*vance" , v. i. 1. To
move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
2. To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
3. To rise in rank,
office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
Advanced to a level with ancient peers.
Prescott.
Ad*vance" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advanced (&?;); p.
pr. & vb. n. Advancing (&?;)(#).]
[OE. avancen, avauncen, F. avancer,
fr. a supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante (F. avant) before. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be fr. L. ad. See Avaunt.] 1. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
2. To raise; to elevate. [Archaic]
They . . . advanced their
eyelids.
Shak.
3. To raise to a higher rank; to
promote.
Ahasueres . . .
advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes.
Esther iii.
1.
4. To
accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.
5. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to
advance an argument.
Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own.
Pope.
6. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
7. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.
8. To raise to a
higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to
advance the price of goods.
9. To extol; to laud. [Obs.]
Greatly advancing his gay chivalry.
Spenser.
Syn. -- To raise; elevate; exalt; aggrandize; improve; heighten; accelerate; allege; adduce; assign.
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