PREVAILMENT
PREVA'ILMENT, adjective Prevalence. [Little used.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PREVALENCE
PREV'ALENCEPREV'ALENCY, noun Superior strength, influence or efficacy; most efficacious force in producing an effect.The duke better knew what kind of arguments were of prevalen...
PREVALENCY
PREV'ALENCY, n. Superior strength, influence or efficacy; most efficacious force in producing an effect.The duke better knew what kind of arguments were of prevalence with him.1...
PREVALENT
PREV'ALENT, adjective Gaining advantage or superiority; victorious.Brennus told the Roman embassadors, that prevalent arms were as good as any title.1. Powerful; efficacious; su...
PREVALENTLY
PREV'ALENTLY, adverb With predominance or superiority; powerfully.The evening star so falls into the mainTo rise at morn more prevalently bright.
PREVARICATE
PREVAR'ICATE, verb intransitive [Latin proevaricor; proe and varico, varicor, to straddle.]1. To shuffle; to quibble; to shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direc...
PREVARICATION
PREVARICA'TION, noun A shuffling or quibbling to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; the practice of some trick for evading what is just or honorable; a deviation from t...
PREVARICATOR
PREVAR'ICATOR, noun One that prevaricates; a shuffler; a quibbler.1. A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.2. One who abuses his trust.
PREVENE
PREVE'NE, verb transitive [Latin proevenio; proe, before, and venio, to come.]Literally, to come before; hence, to hinder. [Not used.]
PREVENIENT
PREVE'NIENT, adjective [Latin proeveniens.] Going before; preceding; hence, preventive; as prevenient grace.
PREVENT
PREVENT', verb transitive [Latin proevenio, supra.]1. To go before; to precede.I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried. Psalms 119:148.2. To precede, as something unex...
PREVENTABLE
PREVENT'ABLE, adjective That may be prevented or hindered.
PREVENTED
PREVENT'ED, participle passive Hindered from happening or taking effect.
PREVENTER
PREVENT'ER, noun One that goes before. [Not in use.]1. One that hinders; a hinderer; that which hinders; as a preventer of evils or of disease.
PREVENTING
PREVENT'ING, participle present tense Going before.1. Hindering; obviating.
PREVENTINGLY
PREVENT'INGLY, adverb In such a manner or way as to hinder.
PREVENTION
PREVEN'TION, noun The act of going before.1. Preoccupation; anticipation. [Little used.]2. The act of hindering; hinderance; obstruction of access or approach.Prevention of sin ...
PREVENTIONAL
PREVEN'TIONAL, adjective Tending to prevent.
PREVENTIVE
PREVENT'IVE, adjective Tending to hinder; hindering the access of; as a medicine preventive of disease.PREVENT'IVE, noun That which prevents; that which intercepts the access or...
PREVENTIVELY
PREVENT'IVELY, adverb By way of prevention; in a manner that tends to hinder.
PREVIOUS
PRE'VIOUS, adjective [Latin proevius; proe, before, and via, way, that is, a going.] Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as a prev...
PREVIOUSLY
PRE'VIOUSLY, adverb In time preceding; beforehand; antecedently; as a plan previously formed.
PREVIOUSNESS
PRE'VIOUSNESS, noun Antecedence; priority in time.
PREVISION
PREVI'SION, noun s as z. [Latin proevisus, proevideo; proe, before, and video, to see.] Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.
PREWARN
PREWARN', verb transitive [See Warn.]To warn beforehand; to give previous notice of.
PREY
PREY, noun [Latin proeda.]1. Spoil; booty; plunder; goods taken by force from an enemy in war.And they brought the captives and the prey and the spoil to Moses and Eleazar the p...
PREYER
PREYER, noun He or that which preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer.