Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of prostrating oneself.
- n. The state of being prostrate.
- n. Total exhaustion or weakness; collapse.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying flat.
- n. The act of falling down, or the act of bowing, in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but the word is now used also for kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship.
- n. Great depression; dejection: as, a prostration of spirits.
- n. In medicine, a great loss of strength, which may involve both voluntary and involuntary functions.
Wiktionary
- n. The act or condition of prostrating (lying flat) oneself, as a sign of humility.
- n. A part of the ordination of Catholic and Orthodox priests.
- n. Being laid face down (prone).
- n. The condition of being prostrated, as from heat.
- n. A reverential bow performed in Middle Eastern cultures.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat.
- n. The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship.
- n. The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection.
- n. (Med.) A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of assuming a prostrate position
- n. an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
- n. abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body
Examples
“Now this King’s daughter loved the idol and was frequent in prostration to it and assiduous in its service; and she was the fairest woman of her day, accomplished in beauty and loveliness, elegance and grace.”
“When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration.”
“I know, because in my own case, after a day or two of what you might call prostration, I began to recover.”
“The merchant was tympanitic from the first day of his prostration, which is not usual.”
“What honour he offered to the angel: He fell at his feet, to worship him; this prostration was a part of external worship, it was a posture of proper adoration.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“I have been told that some Orthodox Jews object to yoga because some of the poses look like "prostration," a position of extreme reverence that is due only to, well, Adonai.”
“Replacing sajdah (a foreign term) with the euphemistic "prostration" (a limited but acceptable Catholic concept) is a fraudulent attempt to convince well-meaning Catholics that an alien religious practice has disciplinary merit.”
“After giving the Civil War speech, Lincoln became ill with symptoms of smallpox: high fever, weakness, severe pain in the head and back, "prostration" — an old-fashioned word for extreme fatigue — and skin eruptions that lasted for three weeks in late 1863.”
Lincoln Came Near Death From Smallpox: Researchers | Impact Lab
“First we practice preliminaries such as prostration and, especially, guru-yoga and making heartfelt requests for inspiration.”
The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� 5 The Deeper Levels of Mahamudra Meditation
“No sooner had her head touched it, than she sank into that deep sleep of prostration which is more like a swoon than a slumber.”
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