tadustion

[In Ital. a dust i one, fr. Lat. adustio the act of burning.) The act of burning or scorching; the state of being burnt or scorched; heat or dryne of the humours of the body. [ADURE.] "Against Against all all asperity asperity an and torrefaction of inward parts, of the blood, and generally against the dryne of age."- Bacon Med. Rem. a-dus-tive, a. [As if from a Lat. adustivus.] That burns or scorches. ăd va-lör-ěm, phr . [Lat.] [AD.] ad-va'nçe, v.t. & i. [In Fr. avancer = to advance, to move forward avant , prep. = before; adv. for, forward. In Sp. avanzar =to advance; Ital. avanzare = to get, to increase; Armor i can avans to advance, from Lat. ab = from; ante = before.] [VAN, ADVANTAGE.] A. Transitive: L. Of place: (a) To cause to move forward horizontally; to bring to the front. 1. Lit. To move a material thing thus forward in place. "Some one glides in like midnight ghost- Nay, strike not! 'tis our noble Host. Advancing then his taper's flame.' Scott: Lord of the Isles, iii. 8. 2. Fig .: To cause any thing, and especially any immaterial thing, to move forward, to bring it to the front, to move it from the background into the foreground, or from obscurity into public notice. Specially : To expre an opinion, to adduce an argument. What we admire we praise: and, when we praise, Advance it into notice, that, its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too." Cowper : Task , bk. iii. IMG:content-0199.png:[blocks in formation] (a) To promote a person to a higher rank. the greatne of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him."- Esther x. 2. "The weak were praised, rewarded, and advanced," Words worth Excursion, bk. iii. (b) To heighten, to grace, to shed lustre upon anything. "As the calling dignifies the man, so the man much more advances his calling. As a garment, though it warms the body, has a return with an advantage, being much more warmed by it."-South: Sermons. (c) To cause to mount up in an unpleasant way, as a parasite climbs up a tree to the injury of the stem supporting it; to increase, to augment. like favourites, Made proud by princes, that advance their pride Against that power that bred it." Shakesp.: Much Ado about Nothing , iii. 1. 93 II. Of time or development ( lit. & fig .): 1. Lit .: To move forward in time or in development: as to accelerate the growth of plants, to move the season of the year forward. "These three last were slower than the ordinary Indian wheat of itself; and this culture did rather retard than advance."- Bacon . "The summer was now far advanced."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. viii. 2. Figuratively : (a) To cause any thing, as a science, one's knowledge, ., to move forward. there is little doubt that the photographs his party has secured will do more to adrance solar physics than any permanent records obtained by any former expedition."- Times , April 20, 1875, "Transit of Venus, (b) Ordinary Language and Commerce. Το advance money is to give money before an equivalent for it is rendered; or to lend, with or without interest; to pay money before it is legally due. the farmer, who advances the subsistence of the labourers, supplies the implements of pro duet i on."-J. 8. Mill Pol . Econ . advanced to the government, at an hour's notice, five or ten you sand pounds."-Macaulay: liist. Eng., ch. xxi. IMG:content-0200.png:[blocks in formation] Advance." Cowper: Task, bk. 1. Smoothly did our life Words worth Excursion, bk. iii. IL. Fig.: To make progre , as in knowledge, rank, . "It will be observed, therefore, that the scale of composition goes on steadily increasing in copiousne as the work advances."-Lewis: Early Rom. Hist., ch. ii., § 9. To advance in price: To rise in value.