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prevailing

PREVAILING PREVALENT

That is in force etc. quod viget increbruit etc. To be prevalent vigere etc.: to become prevalent increbrescere percrebrescere (Cic.); invalescere (Suet. Quint.); (longius) serpere (Cic.).

Common general vulgatus pervagatus (spread abroad among the common people): communis (common or belonging to all). (The words are found in this connection and order.) communis et pervagatus. Also by the genitives vulgi (= vulgatus) or omnium (= communis); e.g. the prevalent opinion vulgi or vulgata or omnium opinio: a prevalent fault vitium commune et pervagatum.

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