prævail

English

Verb

prævail (third-person singular simple present prævails, present participle prævailing, simple past and past participle prævailed)

1. Obsolete spelling of prevail
   • 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:

     […]; 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.

   • 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:

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

   • 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:

     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;