Word Finder - prostration

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The act or condition of prostrating oneself (lying flat), as a sign of humility.

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A part of the ordination of Catholic and Orthodox priests.

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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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Being laid face down (prone).

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The condition of being prostrated, as from heat; complete loss of strength.

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A reverential bow performed in Middle Eastern cultures.

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

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

To the Greeks and Macedonians such a regime was abhorrent, and the opposition roused by Alexander's attempt to introduce among them the practice of proskynesis (prostration before the royal presence), was bitter and effectual.

He was just pulled through, but the attack was followed by long prostration and incapacity for work, and by continued relapses.

That effort was followed by great physical prostration, and he determined not to quit his retirement at Midhurst until spring had fairly set in.

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

The princes knew well how to profit by the national prostration.

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.

This, however, was a period of great physical prostration, so that 1886 and 1887 were perforce among the least productive years of Stevenson's life.

When the end came the country and people were in a state of absolute prostration.

He pictured the consequences of that temper of vengeance which animated the Parisian mob and was fatally controlling the policy of the Convention, and the prostration which would ensue to France after even a successful struggle with a European coalition, which would spring up after the murder of the king.

Antigonus' preoccupation during the Celtic invasions, Sparta's prostration after the Chremonidean campaigns, the wealth amassed by Achaean adventurers abroad and the subsidies of Egypt, the standing foe of Macedonia, all enhanced the league's importance.

Her application for a writ of habeas corpus was refused, and on the 16th of March she left London, progressing however, on account of illness and prostration, only as far as Barnet.

He died on the 7th of June 1880 in an asylum after a short period of nervous prostration.

Along with this the nervous depression is very marked, and the state of prostration to which the patient is reduced can scarcely be exceeded.

The prostration of the empire in the East by Avar and Persian invasions enabled them to drive the imperial officers from the coast towns.

Owing to an attack of nervous prostration, he was unable to fulfill his engagement at Nelson on Friday.

The Ultras While these displayed the utter prostration of weakness, the ultras on the other hand exhibited in full display its exaggerated action.

It typically starts suddenly with fever, chills, headache, aching muscles, general prostration and a cough or other respiratory symptoms.

And meanwhile the rift between Alexander and his European followers continued to show itself in dark incidents - the murder of Clitus at Maracanda (Samarkand), when Alexander struck down an old friend, both being hot with wine; the claim that Alexander should be approached with prostration (proskynesis), urged in the spring of 327, and opposed boldly by the philosopher Callisthenes, Aristotle's nephew, who had come in the king's train; the conspiracy of the pages at Bactria, which was made an occasion for putting Callisthenes to death.

Well, believe it or not the same goes for leaving a dog in a car in very cold weather, except you have hypothermia to contend with instead of heat prostration.

While most older children and adults with CF compensate for this extra salt loss by eating more salty foods, infants and young children are in danger of suffering its effects (such as heat prostration), especially during summer.

Heat prostration is marked by lethargy, weakness, and loss of appetite and should be treated as an emergency condition.

This passion or emotion, according to those who deny her attachment to Bothwell, was simply terror - the blind and irrational prostration of an abject spirit before the cruel force of circumstances and the crafty wickedness of men.

Prostration is marked.

On the 12th of September 1812, he started with two Armenian servants, crossed the Araxes, rode from Tabriz to Erivan, from Erivan to Kars, from Kars to Erzerum, from Erzerum to Chiflik, urged on from place to place by a thoughtless Tatar guide, and, though the plague was raging at Tokat (near Eski-Shehr in Asia Minor), he was compelled by prostration to stop there.