Webster's Dictionary 1828

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ADVANCIVE

ADV'ANCIVE, adjective Tending to advance, or promote.

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ADVANTAGE

ADV'ANTAGE, noun1. Any state, condition, or circumstance, favorable to success, prosperity, interest, or reputation.The enemy had the advantage of elevated ground.2. Benefit; ga...

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ADVANTAGE-GROUND

ADV'ANTAGE-GROUND, noun Ground that gives advantage or superiority; a state that gives superior advantages for annoyance or resistance.

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ADVANTAGEABLE

ADV'ANTAGEABLE, adjective Profitable; convenient; gainful. [Little used.]

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ADVANTAGED

ADV'ANTAGED, participle passive Benefitted; promoted.

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ADVANTAGEOUS

ADVANTA'GEOUS, adjective Being of advantage; furnishing convenience, or opportunity to gain benefit; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position of the...

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ADVANTAGEOUSLY

ADVANTA'GEOUSLY, adverb In an advantageous manner; profitably; usefully; conveniently.

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ADVANTAGEOUSNESS

ADVANTA'GEOUSNESS, noun The quality or state of being advantageous; profitableness; usefulness; convenience.

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ADVANTAGING

ADV'ANTAGING, participle present tense Profiting; benefiting.

982

ADVENE

ADVE'NE, verb intransitive [Latin advenio, to come to, ad and venio.]To accede, or come to; to be added to, or become a part of, though not essential. [Little used.]

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ADVENIENT

ADVE'NIENT, adjective Advening; coming from outward causes.

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ADVENT

AD'VENT, noun [Latin adventus, from advenio, of ad and venio, to come. See Find.]A coming; appropriately the coming of our Savior, and in the calendar, it includes four sabbaths...

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ADVENTINE

ADVENT'INE, adjective Adventitious. [Not used.]

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ADVENTITIOUS

ADVENTI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin adventitius, from advenio. See Advent.]Added extrinsically; accidental; not essentially inherent; casual; foreign.Diseases of continuance get an ...

987

ADVENTITIOUSLY

ADVENTI'TIOUSLY, adverb Accidentally.

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ADVENTIVE

ADVENT'IVE, adjective Accidental; adventitious. [Little used.]ADVENT'IVE, noun The thing or person that comes from without. [Little used.]

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ADVENTUAL

ADVENT'UAL, adjective Relating to the season of advent.

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ADVENTURE

ADVENT'URE, noun [See Advent.]1. Hazard; risk; chance; that of which one has no direction; as, at all adventures, that is, at all hazards. [See Venture.]2. An enterprize of haza...

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ADVENTURED

ADVENT'URED, participle passive Put to hazard; ventured; risked.

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ADVENTURER

ADVENT'URER, noun1. One who hazards, or puts something at risk, as merchant-adventurers.2. One who seeks occasions of chance, or attempts bold, novel, or extraordinary enterprizes.

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ADVENTURESOME

ADVENT'URESOME, adjective Bold; daring; incurring hazard. [See Venturesome.]

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ADVENTURESOMENESS

ADVENT'URESOMENESS, noun The quality of being bold and venturesome.

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ADVENTURING

ADVENT'URING, participle present tense Putting to risk; hazarding.

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ADVENTUROUS

ADVENT'UROUS, adjective1. Inclined or willing to incur hazard; bold to encounter danger; daring; courageous; enterprizing; applied to persons.2. Full of hazard; attended with ri...

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ADVENTUROUSLY

ADVENT'UROUSLY, adverb Boldly; daringly; in a manner to incur hazard.

998

ADVENTUROUSNESS

ADVENT'UROUSNESS, noun The act or quality of being adventurous.

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ADVERB

AD'VERB, noun [Latin adverbium, of ad and verbum, to a verb.]In grammar, a word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective or attribute, and usually placed near i...