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  MORE, adj.  The comparative degree of too much.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  More \More\ (m[=o]r), n. [AS. m[=o]r. See Moor a waste.]
     A hill. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  More \More\, n. [AS. more, moru; akin to G. m["o]hre carrot,
     OHG. moraha, morha.]
     A root. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  More \More\, a., compar. [Positive wanting; superl. Most
     (m[=o]st).] [OE. more, mare, and (orig. neut. and adv.) mo,
     ma, AS. m[=a]ra, and (as neut. and adv.) m[=a]; akin to D.
     meer, OS. m[=e]r, G. mehr, OHG. m[=e]ro, m[=e]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. [root]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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     Note: 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  More \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  More \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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     Note: Double comparatives were common among writers of the
           Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more
           brighter; more dearer.
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                 The duke of Milan
                 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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              Those oracles which set the world in flames,
              Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more.
                                                    --Byron.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  More \More\, v. t.
     To make more; to increase. [Obs.] --Gower.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Much \Much\ (m[u^]ch), a. [Compar. & superl. wanting, but
     supplied by More (m[=o]r), and Most (m[=o]st), from
     another root.] [OE. moche, muche, miche, prob. the same as
     mochel, muchel, michel, mikel, fr. AS. micel, mycel; cf. Gr.
     me`gas, fem. mega`lh, great, and Icel. mj["o]k, adv., much.
     [root]103. See Mickle.]
     1. Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has
        fallen; much time.
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              Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and
              shalt gather but little in.           --Deut.
                                                    xxviii. 38.
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     2. Many in number. [Archaic]
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              Edom came out against him with much people. --Num.
                                                    xx. 20.
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     3. High in rank or position. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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