Prostration Definition

prŏ-strāshən
prostrations
noun
prostrations
A prostrating or being prostrated.
Webster's New World
The act of prostrating oneself.
American Heritage Medicine
The state of being prostrate.
American Heritage Medicine
Utter physical or mental exhaustion or helplessness.
Webster's New World

A part of the ordination of Catholic and Orthodox priests.

The ordination ceremony includes a variety of rituals, rich in meaning and history, e.g., the prostration, laying on of hands, anointing of hands, giving of the chalice and paten, and sign of peace. "” Diocese of Rochester, NY.
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Noun

Singular:
prostration
Plural:
prostrations

Prostration Sentence Examples

  • First faintness and irresistible desire to sleep. Then alarming prostration and vomiting.

  • The prostration is great and the course of the illness rapid.

  • Great prostration, vomiting and cold, clammy perspiration follow within one to three hours.

  • Between the date of her death in 1758 and his own on the 10th of August 17 J9 he fell into a state of prostration in which he would not even dress, but wandered unshaven, unwashed and in a nightgown about his park.

  • Prostration and cerebral symptoms are particularly marked; the temperature rises rapidly and very high.

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