advantageous,a.|ædvənˈteɪdʒəs|Also 6–7 advantagious.[ad.Fr.avantageux, -euse,f.avantage: see advantage and -ous. The common 17th c. spelling is evidently due to looking upon the word as formed from themed.L. avantagium, a latinized form of avantage.Cf.contagious, litigious.]1.Of advantage; furnishing advantages; profitable, useful, opportune, beneficial, favourable.1598Florio,Auantaggioso, aduantageous, hauing ods or aduantage.1606Shakes.Tr. & Cr. v. iv. 22,I doe not flye; but aduantagious care Withdrew me from the oddes of multitude.1667MiltonP.L. ii. 368Here perhaps Som advantagious act may be achiev'd By sudden onset.1766BurkeLate Administ.Wks.II. 5Making an advantageous treaty of commerce with Russia.c1860MauriceMor. &Metaph.Philos.IV. ix. §37. 559Condillac is an advantageous and admirable type of the school.b.Const. to, for (untoobs.).1610Shakes.Temp.ii. i. 49Heere is euery thing aduantageous to life.1618RaleighRem. (1664) 149Advantagious also, as well for the publick weal, as the private person.1630PrynneAnti-Armin. 123What can be more aduantagious vnto Satan.1767JuniusLett.viii. 33A wise doctrine..equally advantageous to the king and his subjects.1868PeardWater-farming xiii. 131Heat is agreeable, if not advantageous to most fresh-water fish.†2.Apt to take advantage, overreaching, sharp. (Cotgr.Avantageux, advantageous, also very forward, full of forwardness.) Obs.rare.1599SandysEuropæSpec.(1632) 226They[Jews]are a subtile and advantagious people and wonderfully eager of gaine.