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v. i.
To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer.
adv.
In a prevalent manner.
n.
The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.
n.
Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy.
a.
Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.
n.
A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively.
a.
Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion.
a.
Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious.
v. i.
To be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain; as, the practice prevails this day.
n.
The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.
n.
A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
n.
A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
n.
The type of religion which once prevalied among all the Ural-Altaic peoples (Tungusic, Mongol, and Turkish), and which still survives in various parts of Northern Asia. The Shaman, or wizard priest, deals with good as well as with evil spirits, especially the good spirits of ancestors.
superl.
Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.
v. i.
Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
n.
A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.
a.
Prevailing; prevalent; abounding.
a.
Prevalent everywhere or in all things.
n.
A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.
n.
See Prevalence.
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