Chapter Moraine to More of M by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

(b) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.

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 Milan
And his more braver daughter.

Shak.

2. In addition; further; besides; again.

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.

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.

Those oracles which set the world in flames,
Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more.

Byron.

More
(More), v. t. To make more; to increase. [Obs.] Gower.