Category:Prostrate

Pros"trate, a. Etym: [l. prostratus, p. p. of prosternere to Prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. See stratum.]

1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other Surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate elyot. Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. Milton.

2. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant. Dryden.

3. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture. Prostrate fall before him reverent, and there confess humbly our Faults. Milton.

4. (bot.)

Defn: trailing on the ground; procumbent.

Prostrate Pros"trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prostrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Prostrating.]

1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate The body; to prostrate trees or plants. Evelyn.

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. Milman.

4. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a Person prostrated by fever.