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Prostrate   /prˈɑstreɪt/   Listen
adjective
Prostrate  adj.  
1.
Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate. "Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire."
2.
Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
3.
Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture. "Prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults."
4.
(Bot.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.


verb
Prostrate  v. t.  (past & past part. prostrated; pres. part. prostrating)  
1.
To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
2.
To overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
3.
To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
4.
To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.





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"Prostrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... her death. One story claims that he was a criminal and was seen in prison by a gentleman from Alexandria, and others far more romantic tell of his reappearance at stated intervals in Alexandria when he was observed prostrate upon the tomb. Whatever his own story, he placed the mortal remains of the little stranger in St. Paul's Cemetery and covered her with a table tomb which is inscribed with ...
— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore
... States to that of Great Britain. With this view, he had entailed upon the nation a heavy debt, and perpetual taxes; had created an artificial monied interest which had corrupted, and would continue to corrupt the legislature; and was endeavouring to prostrate the local authorities as a necessary step towards erecting that great consolidated monarchy which ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5) • John Marshall
... us this glance behind the curtain of his daily life, then crawled through the trap, slid down the reeking staircase and gained the street. One last glance, as my eyes reached the floor-level of the trap, showed me that the room was untenanted, save by the prostrate form of the visionary, above whom the eyes of the peacock still glinted with something of mockery in ...
— By-Ways of Bombay • S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.
... see an opening, as it were, into the very arrangements and councils of the skies; we catch a glimpse of the machinery by which the universe is governed; the wheels of Providence are for a moment exhibited, palpable and unencumbered by secondary causes, while we, stricken prostrate from the consciousness of our own insignificance, acknowledge with awe and admiration the protecting power of which ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... had added several bushels of shavings, Jack Harris and Phil Adams, who were steering, dropped on the ground, and allowed the vehicle to pass over them, which it did without injuring them; but the boys who were clinging for dear life to the trunk-rack behind fell over the prostrate steersman, and there we all lay in a heap, two or three of us ...
— The Story of a Bad Boy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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