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more noun [AS. mōr. See Moor a waste.] A hill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
More, noun [AS. more, moru; akin to G. möhre carrot, OHG. moraha, morha.] A root. [Obs.] Chaucer.
More, adjective or comparative [Positive wanting; superlative Most (mōst).] [OE. more, mare, and (orig. neut. and adv.) mo, ma, AS. māra, and (as neut. and adv.) mā; akin to D. meer, OS. mēr, G. mehr, OHG. mēro, mēr, 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.☞ 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.He gat more money. Chaucer.
If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Milton.Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height,(b) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; – with the plural.
Do make them music for their more delight. Spenser.
The more part knew not wherefore they were come together. Acts xix. 32.
Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. Shak.The people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Ex. i. 9.2. Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more worlds to conquer.With open arms received one poet more. PopMore, noun
1. A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. Ex. xvi. 17.2. That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount.They that would have more and more can never have enough. L’Estrange.Any more
O! That pang where more than madness lies. Byron.(a) Anything or something additional or further; as, I do not need any more.No more
(b) Adverbially: Further; beyond a certain time; as, do not think any more about it.not anything more; nothing in addition.The more and lessthe high and low. [Obs.] Shak. “All cried, both less and more.” Chaucer.More adverb
1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.(a) With a verb or participle.(b) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.Admiring more
The riches of Heaven's pavement. Milton.Happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon.☞ Double comparatives were common among writers of the Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more brighter; more dearer.The duke of Milan2. In addition; further; besides; again.
And his more braver daughter. Shak.Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more,More and more
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. Milton.with continual increase.The more
“Amon trespassed more and more.” 2 Chron. xxxiii. 23.to a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a reason already specified.The more – the moreby how much more – by so much more.To be no 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 have ceased to be; as, Cassius is no more; Troy is no more.More, transitive verb
Those oracles which set the world in flames,
Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more. Byron.To make more; to increase. [Obs.] Gower.
-- Webster's unabridged 1913
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