Category:Prone

Prone, a. Etym: [l. pronus, akin to gr. pravana sloping, inclined, And also to l. pro forward, for. See pro-.]

1. Bending forward; inclined; not erect. Towards him they bend with awful reverence prone. Milton.

2. Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to Supine. Which, as the wind, blew where it listed, laying all things prone. Byron.

3. Headlong; running downward or headlong. "down thither prone in Flight." Milton.

4. Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; Not level. Since the floods demand, for their descent, a prone and sinking land. Blackmore.

5. Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or Affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to. "prone to Mischief." Shak. Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy. Landor.