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.
   (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.

Note: 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, Oye 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 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)