advantageous

[ADVANTAGE.] Promising or actually conferring advantage; profitable, beneficial; opportune, convenie..t. "The large system can only be advantageous when a large amount of busine is to be done." -J. S. Milи : Polit . Econ ., bk. i., ch. ix. the amount of advantageous modification in relation to certain special ends."- Darwin : Descent of Man , pt. il., ch. viii. 44 "Just in that advantageous glade, The halting troop a line had made." Scott: Marmion , iv. 5. to capitulate o on honourable and adean tageous terms." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xii. Always with to before the person or thing benefited. "Since every painter paints himself in his own works, 'tis advantageous to him to know himself." Dryden. ăd-van-ta-geo us-lý, adv. [ADVANTAGEOUS.] In an advantageous manner; profit ably, beneficially. "It has, in consequence, appeared to the author of the following work that an attempt might adran tagrously be made to treat the history of ancient astronomy."-Lewis: Astronomy of the Ancients , ch. i., § 1., p. 2. a busine of real public importance can only be carried on advantageously upon so large scale." J. S. Mill Mill : Polit . Econ , bk. 1, ch. ix. ad-van-ta-geo us-ne , 8. [ADVANTAGEOUS.] The quality of being advantageous; profitablene , profit, benefit. "The last property which qualifies God for the fittest object of our love, is the advantageousne of his to us, both in the present and the future life." Boyle : Seraphic Love. ad-van-tag-ing, pr. par. [ADVANTAGE.]