Ad`van*ta"geous (&?;), a. [F. avantageux, fr. avantage.] Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.
Advabtageous comparison with any other country.
Prescott.
You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes.
Chesterfield.
Ad`van*ta"geous*ly, adv. Profitably; with advantage.
Ad`van*ta"geous*ness, n. Profitableness.
Ad*vene" (&?;), v. i. [L. advenire; ad + venire to come: cf. F. avenir, advenir. See Come.] To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential. [R.]
Where no act of the will advenes as a coefficient.
Coleridge.
Ad*ven"ient (&?;), a. [L. adviens, p. pr.] Coming from outward causes; superadded. [Obs.]
Ad`vent (&?;), n. [L. adventus, fr. advenire, adventum: cf. F. avent. See Advene.] 1. (Eccl.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). Shipley.