prævail

present singular third person prævails · participle present prævailing · participle past prævailed · past prævailed

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of prevail.

   […]; ſo that his Sentences muſt prævail in thoſe preſſing emergencies when your Nugatory animadverſions are exploded and derided.

   1665, Robert Sprackling, Medela Ignorantiæ: or A Just and Plain Vindication of Hippocrates and Galen from the Groundless Imputations of M. N. Wherein the Whole Substance of His Illiterate Plea, Intituled Medela Medicinæ Is Occasionally Considered, London: […] W. G. for Robert Crofts, page 9

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   […]; firſt prævailed upon him to inveſt Fortune in ſuch a ſpecious diſguise, under which he might, with leſs diſhonour to his owne Intellectuals, advance her to the reputation of a Deity, and adore her.

   1652, Walter Charleton, The Darknes of Atheism Dispelled by the Light of Nature. A Physico-Theological Treatise, London: […] J. F. for William Lee, page 296

   This ſame Abſurdity prævails here too, it ſeems—O fye upon it! for this is the Phraſe uſed by Thoſe who are to be the new Biſhop;

   1773, [William] Scott, Epigrams of Martial, &c. with Mottos from Horace, &c. Translated, Imitated, Adapted, and Addrest to the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry. With Notes Moral, Historical, Explanatory and Humorous., London: […] J. Wilkie, […] J. Walter, […] and H. Parker, […], pages 100–101