praevale
Dictionary entries
- Entry →praevaleo, praevalere, praevalui, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
prevail; have superior power/force/weight/influence/worth/efficacy (medicine);
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...intercidunt ista, non pereunt, sed invicem vincunt, praevalent, cedunt. filio non potest praeferri nisi filius. Blandiar, iudices, paulisper..."Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...quidem et probitatis spectatae, fato quodam, an quia praevalent inlicita, abhorrebat, metuebaturque, ne in stupra feminarum inlustrium prorumperet..."