prostrating

• • During the entire Paschal season there is no prostrating or kneeling permitted in church or at home for we stand with the resurrected Christ: —  ORTHODIXIE ... Southern, Orthodox, Convert, Etc.
• Called prostrating, this process requires Muslims to touch their heads to the ground but, as the carpet makes this difficult to achieve indoors, the rock represents the earth. —  Arbiter Online
• Humiliator (of adversaries), thou goest from battle to battle, and destroyest by thy might city after city: with thy foe-prostrating associate, (the thunderbolt,) thou, Indra, didst slay afar off the deceiver named Namu_k_i 8. —  Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
• Meanwhile, receding backwards as fast as I could, I fell over some of the people praying and prostrating, and the camel attacked them as well as me, spoiling their devotions. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• The storm which burst with all its fury on the Continent, wrapping nations in the flames of civil war, prostrating, withering, and overwhelming civil institutions, and marking its path with desolation did but exert a salutary influence in England. —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10

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