More
(More), n. [AS. more, moru; akin to G. möhre carrot, OHG. moraha, morha.] A root. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
More
(More), a., compar. [Positive wanting; superl. Most ] [OE. more, mare, and (orig. neut. and
adv.) mo, ma, AS. mara, and (as neut. and adv.) ma; akin to D. meer, OS. mer, G. mehr, OHG.
mero, mer, 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. &radic103. Cf. Most,
uch, Major.]
1. Greater; superior; increased; as: (a) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the
singular.
He gat more money.
Chaucer.
If we procure not to ourselves more woe.
Milton. 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.
Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height,
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. (b) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; — with the plural.
The people of the children of Israel are more and mighter 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.
Pope. More
(More), n.
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.
O! That pang where more than madness lies.
Byron. 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.
More
(More), adv.
1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree. (a) With a verb or participle.
Admiring more
The riches of Heaven's pavement.
Milton.
