advantage sb. (sense ‘profit, benefit’ is freq. with phr. “make” or “take of,” rarely “on” Ven. 405); also ‘advantageous or favourable position’)
1.
favourable opportunity, chance
Tp. III. iii. 13
“The next Will we
take,”
Oth. I. iii. 299, II. i. 249, Ven. 129;
3H6 III. ii. 192
“for advantages”
(=as it serves my convenience; cf. Compl. 123);
Oth. III. iii. 312
“to the
advantage”
(= opportunely).
2.
pecuniary profit,
interest on money
Mer.V. I. iii. 71
“neither lend nor borrow
Upon advantage”
; fig. John III. iii. 22.
3.
“with advantages”
H5 IV. iii. 50 (‘his story will lose nothing in the telling’).
