vantage (vantaj)

[Early mod. E. also vaun tage; ME. vantage, vauntage; by apheresis from a vantage, advantage: see advantage.] 11. Advantage; gain; profit. By-syde hys vantage that may be-falle, Of skynnes and other thynges with-alle. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 320. Paulus,... with more prosperous iorneys then great vantage , had from his youth trauayled a greate parte of the world. R. Eden , tr. of Paolo Giovio (First Books on Amer[ica, ed. Arber, p. 309). 2. Advantage; the state in which one has better means of action or defense than another; vantage-ground. IMG:content-1699.png:[blocks in formation] Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. Then [while he hung on the cro ] was he vanquishing Bp . Atterbury , Sermons, II. xviii. 2. To defeat in any contest, as in argument; get the better of. death by his death, and opening for us a gate immortality. He [Garrick] struggled with Quin for mastery-vanquished him, became his friend, and hung up over his grave a glowing testimony to his talent and his virtues. Doran , Annals of the Stage, I. 403. 3. To confute; show to be erroneous or unfounded; overturn. This bold a ertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the bishop of Meaux's treatise. Bp. Atterbury. 4. To overpower; prostrate; be too much for. Sorrow and grief have vanquish'd all my powers. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 183. Love of himself ne'er vanquish'd me, But through your Eyes the Conquest made. Congreve, Song to Amynta. IMG:content-1700.png:[blocks in formation] =Syn. Overcome, Subdue, etc. (see conquer ), surmount, overthrow; rout, crush. vanquish (vang'kwish), n. [Appar. That great giant was only vanquishable by the Knights of the Wells. Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, p. 87. ( Latham .) which gives one an advantage over another; favorable position. No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the van tage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below. Bacon , Truth (ed. 1887).