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The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning. In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . propose…

Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress. The matter being afoot. Shak.

ands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward. We will go along by the king's highway. Numb. xxi. 22. He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. Coleridge.

A gradual progression from one type to another, generally ascending. Huxley.

person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

An ancestor; a progenitor. [Obs.]

re the health by application to study. Had his application been equal to his talents, his progress night have been greater. J. Jay.

mplement of a logarithm. See Logarithm. -- Arithmetical mean. See Mean. -- Arithmetical progression. See Progression. -- Arithmetical proportion. See Proportion.

To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." Shak. [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum…

Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

e acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.

one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant. Ayliffe.

rology; professing or practicing astrology. "Astrologi learning." Hudibras. "Astrological prognostication." Cudworth. -- As`tro*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.

To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at. "Canaan he now attains." Milton.

To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow. My auguring mind assures the same success. Dryden.

An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott.