Also 5 vauntagyn, 6 -age. [f. prec., or ad. OF. vantager (Palsgr.).]
1. trans. To profit or benefit (one). Now only arch. Cf. ADVANTAGE v. 4.
c. 1460. Promp. Parv. (Winch.), Forderyn,… or vauntagyn.
1530. Palsgr., 765/1. What dothe it vauntage you to go so often over-see?
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. iv. 49. Needlesse feare did neuer vantage none.
1596. Edw. III., II. i. Yf nothing but that losse may vantage you, I would accompt that losse my vauntage to.
a. 1618. Sylvester, Job Triumphant, IV. 227. What will it vantage mee, What shall I gain, if I from sin be free?
1825. Scott, Betrothed, xxiv. To keep him as a captive might vantage them more in many degrees, than could his death.
1891. C. E. Norton, Dante’s Purgat., xiii. 66. What hath it vantaged thee to make of me a screen?
refl. 1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 186. They vauntage themselves nothyng by this distinction.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, I. ii. 13. Thereby to aduance and vantage himselfe.
† 2. intr. To make gain or profit. Obs.–1
1563. Foxe, A. & M., 33/1. The commen saying of … naughty wemen, which say, they vantage more in one holy day, then in L. other daies besides.
Hence Vantaged ppl. a., † increased, augmented.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, Pref. 7. That … with the testimonie of a cleare conscience, we may render our vauntaged talentes vnto the high Auditour.
