1. The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.
2. 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. "Mental prostitution." Byron.
PROSTITUTOR
Pros"ti*tu`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes. Bp. Hurd.
PROSTOMIUM
Pro*sto"mi*um, n.; pl. Prostomia. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the
mouth.
— Pro*sto"mi*al, a.
PROSTRATE
Pros"trate, a. Etym: [L. prostratus, p. p. of prosternere to
prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down.
See Stratum.]
1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot. Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. Milton.
2. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant. Dryden.
3. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture. Prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults. Milton.