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  • English Word Prostitute Definition A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.
  • English Word Prostitute Definition A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
  • English Word Prostituted Definition of Prostitute
  • English Word Prostituting Definition of Prostitute
  • English Word Prostitution Definition The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.
  • English Word Prostitution Definition The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press.
  • English Word Prostitutor Definition One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes.
  • English Word Prostomia Definition of Prostomium
  • English Word Prostomium Definition That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.
  • English Word Prostrate Definition Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
  • English Word Prostrate Definition Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
  • English Word Prostrate Definition Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
  • English Word Prostrate Definition Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
  • English Word Prostrate Definition To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
  • English Word Prostrate Definition 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.
  • English Word Prostrate Definition To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
  • English Word Prostrate Definition To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
  • English Word Prostrated Definition of Prostrate
  • English Word Prostrating Definition of Prostrate
  • English Word Prostration Definition The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.
  • English Word Prostration Definition 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.
  • English Word Prostration Definition The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits.
  • English Word Prostration Definition A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor.
  • English Word Prostyle Definition Having columns in front.
  • English Word Prostyle Definition A prostyle portico or building.
  • English Word Prosy Definition Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.
  • English Word Prosy Definition Dull and tedious in discourse or writing; prosaic.
  • English Word Prosylogism Definition A syllogism preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism.
  • English Word Protactic Definition Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the plot or personages of a play; introductory.
  • English Word Protagon Definition A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.