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Prostitution
n.
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The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.
Prostitution
n.
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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.
Prostitutor
n.
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One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes.
Prostomia
pl.
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of Prostomium
Prostomium
n.
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That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.
Prostrate
a.
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Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
Prostrate
a.
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Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
Prostrate
a.
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Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
Prostrate
a.
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Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
Prostrated
imp. & p. p.
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of Prostrate
Prostrating
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Prostrate
Prostrate
v. t.
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To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
Prostrate
v. t.
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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.
Prostrate
v. t.
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To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
Prostrate
v. t.
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To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
Prostration
n.
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The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.
Prostration
n.
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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.
Prostration
n.
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The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits.
Prostration
n.
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A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor.
Prostyle
a.
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Having columns in front.
Prostyle
n.
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A prostyle portico or building.
Prosy
superl.
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Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.
Prosy
superl.
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Dull and tedious in discourse or writing; prosaic.
Prosylogism
n.
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A syllogism preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism.
Protactic
a.
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Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the plot or personages of a play; introductory.
Protagon
n.
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A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.
Protagonist
n.
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One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like.
Protamin
n.
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An amorphous nitrogenous substance found in the spermatic fluid of salmon. It is soluble in water, which an alkaline reaction, and unites with acids and metallic bases.
Protandric
a.
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Having male sexual organs while young, and female organs later in life.
Protandrous
a.
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Proterandrous.