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More (m&ō;r), n. [AS. m&ō;r. See Moor a waste.] A hill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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More, n. [AS. more, moru; akin to G. m&ö;hre carrot, OHG. moraha, morha.] A root. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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More, a., compar. [Positive wanting; superl. Most (m&ō;st).] [OE. more, mare, and (orig. neut. and adv.) mo, ma, AS. m&ā;ra, and (as neut. and adv.) m&ā;; akin to D. meer, OS. m&ē;r, G. mehr, OHG. m&ē;ro, m&ē;r, Icel. meiri, meirr, Dan. meere, meer, Sw. mera, mer, Goth. maiza, a., mais, adv., and perh. to L. major greater, compar. of magnus great, and magis, adv., more. √103. Cf. Most, uch, Major.] 1. Greater; superior; increased; as: (a) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular.
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He gat more money.
Chaucer.
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If we procure not to ourselves more woe.
Milton.
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&hand_; More, in this sense, was formerly used in connection with some other qualifying word, -- a, the, this, their, etc., -- which now requires the substitution of greater, further, or the like, for more.
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Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height,
Do make them music for their more delight.
Spenser.
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The more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
Acts xix. 32.
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Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.
Shak.
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(b) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural.
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The people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
Ex. i. 9.
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2. Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more worlds to conquer.
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With open arms received one poet more.
Pope.
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More, n. 1. A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.
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And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
Ex. xvi. 17.
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2. That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount.
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They that would have more and more can never have enough.
L'Estrange.
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O! That pang where more than madness lies.
Byron.
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Any more. (a) Anything or something additional or further; as, I do not need any more. (b) Adverbially: Further; beyond a certain time; as, do not think any more about it. -- No more, not anything more; nothing in addition. -- The more and less, the high and low. [Obs.] Shak. “All cried, both less and more.” Chaucer.
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More, adv. 1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree. (a) With a verb or participle.
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Admiring more
The riches of Heaven's pavement.
Milton.
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(b) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.
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Happy here, and more happy hereafter.
Bacon.
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&hand_; Double comparatives were common among writers of the Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more brighter; more dearer.
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And his more braver daughter.
Shak.
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2. In addition; further; besides; again.
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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more,
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.
Milton.
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More and more, with continual increase. “Amon trespassed more and more.” 2 Chron. xxxiii. 23. -- The more, to a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a reason already specified. -- The more -- the more, by how much more -- by so much more. “The more he praised it in himself, the more he seems to suspect that in very deed it was not in him.” Milton. -- To be no more, to have ceased to be; as, Cassius is no more; Troy is no more.
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Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more.
Byron.
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More, v. t. To make more; to increase. [Obs.] Gower.
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