To help forward; to assist.
In happie houre we haue ſet the Crowne Upon your Kingly head, that ſeeks our honor, In ioyning with the man, ordain’d by heauen To further euerie action to the beſt.
To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.
Further the economy.
More distant; relatively distant.
See those two lampposts? Run to the further one.
More, additional.
To, at or over a greater distance in space, time or other extent.
I can run further than you.
To a greater extent or degree.
From Middle English further, forther, from Old English forþor, furþor (“further”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *furþer, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (a common preposition), equivalent to fore +...
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I have one further comment to make.
Of the two civilisations, this one was further advanced.
Beyond what is already stated or is already the case.
Chapter 10 further explains the ideas introduced in Chapter 9.