advancing

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. [1913 Webster]

2.To raise; to elevate. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]

They . . . advanced their eyelids.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.To raise to a higher rank; to promote. [1913 Webster]

Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes.— Esther iii. 1.[1913 Webster]

4.To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests. [1913 Webster]

5.To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. [1913 Webster]

Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

6.To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten. [1913 Webster]

7.To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him. [1913 Webster]

8.To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods. [1913 Webster]

9.To extol; to laud. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Greatly advancing his gay chivalry.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]

Syn: To raise; elevate; exalt; aggrandize; improve; heighten; accelerate; allege; adduce; assign. [1913 Webster]