PREVAIL Copy link • PREVAILTo obtain force, currency, etc., invalescere, convalescere: ingravescere (to gain strength): increbrescere: percrebrescere (to become frequent or common): inveterascere (to take deep root): serpere (to spread abroad gradually and imperceptibly) late se diffundere: late serpere (to spread abroad widely): to prevail throughout anything, diffundi or se diffundere per aliquid; pervadere per aliquid: a fever prevails, febris augetur, increscit: luxury began to prevail, luxuria pullulare incipiebat (Nep., Cat., 2, 3). To be in force, have influence, vigere; increbruisse; invaluisse; obtinere (post-Augustan). Anybody’s opinion ought to have prevailed, alicujus consilium valere debuit. To conquer, Vid: PREVAIL UPON, movere, adducere, perducere, impellere aliquem ad, or in aliquid or ut faciat aliquid. He could not be prevailed upon to take the oath, adduci non potuit ut juraret (Caes.). I cannot prevail on myself to, etc., a me or ab animo meo impetrare non possum ut (faciam aliquid); animum or in animum inducere non possum, facere or ut faciam aliquid; not to do it, quin faciam.