Advance

a. [Fr. avancer.] To bring forward; to move onward. IMG:content-0061.png:[blocks in formation] "To advance the nature of man to its highest perfection."Til lots on. -To heighten; to grace; to give lustre to. As the calling dignifies the man, so the man much more ad vances his calling. South To forward; to accelerate the growth or progre of; as, This culture did rather retard than advance." - Bacon. propose; to make known; to bring to view; as, "I dare not advance my opinion." - Dryden. -To pay in part, or wholly, before the delivery of goods purchased, the execution of work or the performance of any busine ; to supply or pay for others, in expectation of reimbursement. Adulterately, adv . In an adulterate manner. Adulterate ne , n . The quality or state of being adulterated, or counterfeit. Adult era'tion, n. [Fr.] The act of adulterating or - To corrupting by foreign mixture the articles of food, drugs, and products of the arts and manufactures; the state of being adulterated. There are enactments against A. in most of the European countries, and also from long in Pennsylvania and some other States, but it is only of late that this criminal fraud, from which most cases of poisoning originate, has seriously attracted the public attention. Various acts have been pa ed in relation to the articles which were most seriously adulterated, such as milk, butter, ., their infraction being punishable by confiscation and fine, while earnest efforts have been made to trace the various injurious substances used in food adulteration.