Hypertext Webster Gateway: "advanced"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. To raise; to elevate. [Archaic]

They . . . advanced their eyelids. --Shak.

3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.

Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above
all the princes. --Esther iii.
1.

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.

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

Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own. --Pope.

6. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.

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.

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

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

Greatly advancing his gay chivalry. --Spenser.

Syn: To raise; elevate; exalt; aggrandize; improve; heighten;
accelerate; allege; adduce; assign.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or
ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.

3. Far on in life or time.

A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard
experience written in his wrinkles. --Hawthorne.

{Advanced guard}, a detachment of troops which precedes the
march of the main body.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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