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- Prevalent - a. - Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious.
- Prevalent - a. - Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.
- Prevalently - adv. - In a prevalent manner.
- Weak - v. i. - Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
- Gothic - a. - Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital.
- Heathenism - n. - The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.
- Prevalent - a. - Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.
- Obtain - 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.
- Voodooism - 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.
- Prevalently - adv. - In a prevalent manner.
- Bloody sweat - - A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.
- Scurvy - 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.
- Vampire - 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.
- Hurricane - 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.