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BET'TER, a comp. of bet. See Best.]

1. Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; applied to physical, acquired or moral qualities; as a better soil, a better man, a better physician, a better house, a better air, a better harvest.

2. More advantageous.

Were it not better for us to return to Egypt: Ex.14.

3. More acceptable.

To obey is better than sacrifice. 1 Sam.15.

4. More safe.

It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in man. Ps.118.

5. Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.

6. To be better off, to be in a better condition. Beddoes,Hygeia. This is a very common phrase; but ought not off, to be of? It is not elegant.

7. To have the better, is to have the advantage or superiority, followed by of before him or that over which the advantage is enjoyed; as, the English had the better of the Spaniards.

8. To get or gain the better, is to obtain the advantage, superiority or victory; as, to get the better of an enemy.

9. For the better, is for the advantage or improvement.

BET'TER, adv. In a more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, virtue, advantage or success; as, to perform work better; to plan a scheme better; land better cultivated; laws better executed; government better administered.

1. More correctly, or fully; as, to understand a subject better than another.

2. With superior excellence; as, to write or speak better than another.

3. With more affection; in a higher degree; as, to love one better than another.

It is not easy to specify and exemplify the various applications of better. In general,it implies what is more excellent, advantageous, useful, or virtuous, than something else.

BET'TER, v.t.

1. To improve; to meliorate; to increase the good qualities of; as, manure betters land; discipline may better the morals.

2. To surpass; to exceed.

The works of nature do always aim at that which cannot be bettered.

Qu.is not the sense, made better:

3. To advance; to support; to give advantage to; as, to better a party; to better a cause.

BET'TER, n. A superior; one who has a claim to precedence on account of his rank, age, or office; as, give place to your betters. It is generally or always used in the plural.

1913 Definition
Better (better)
a.((?))
Bet"ter
; compar. of Good. [OE. betere, bettre, and as adv. bet, AS. betera, adj., and bet, adv.; akin to Icel. betri, adj., betr, adv., Goth. batiza, adj., OHG. bezziro, adj., baz,
  1. Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

    Could make the worse appear
    The better reason.
    Milton.

  2. Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.

    To obey is better than sacrifice.
    1 Sam. xv. 22.

    It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.
    Ps. cxviii. 9.

  3. Greater in amount; larger; more.
  4. Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.
  5. More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.

    All the better. See under All, adv. -- Better half, an expression used to designate one's wife.

    My dear, my better half (said he),
    I find I must now leave thee.
    Sir P. Sidney.

    -- To be better off, to be in a better condition. -- Had better. (See under Had). The phrase had better, followed by an infinitive without to, is idiomatic. The earliest form of construction was "were better" with a dative; as, "Him were better go beside." (Gower.) i. e., It would be better for him, etc. At length the nominative (I, he, they, etc.) supplanted the dative and had took the place of were. Thus we have the construction now used.

    By all that's holy, he had better starve
    Than but once think this place becomes thee not.
    Shak.

  6. Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.
  7. One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural.

    Their betters would hardly be found.
    Hooker.

    For the better, in the way of improvement; so as to produce improvement. "If I have altered him anywhere for the better." Dryden.

  8. In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits.

    I could have better spared a better man.
    Shak.

  9. More correctly or thoroughly.

    The better to understand the extent of our knowledge.
    Locke.

  10. In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another.

    Never was monarch better feared, and loved.
    Shak.

  11. More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.
    [Colloq.]

    To think better of (any one), to have a more favorable opinion of any one. -- To think better of (an opinion, resolution, etc.), to reconsider and alter one's decision.

  12. To improve or ameliorate] to increase the good qualities of.

    Love betters what is best.
    Wordsworth.

    He thought to better his circumstances.
    Thackeray.

  13. To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise.

    The constant effort of every man to better himself.
    Macaulay.

  14. To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.

    The works of nature do always aim at that which can not be bettered.
    Hooker.

  15. To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
    [Obs.]

    Weapons more violent, when next we meet,
    May serve to better us and worse our foes.
    Milton.

    Syn. -- To improve; meliorate; ameliorate; mend; amend; correct; emend; reform; advance; promote.

  16. To become better; to improve.
    Carlyle.
  17. One who bets or lays a wager.
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