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Prostrate
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
(2):
(v. t.) 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):
(v. t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
(4):
(v. t.) To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
(5):
(a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
(6):
(a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
(7):
(a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
(8):
(a.) Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Prostrate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/prostrate.html. 1828.
