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adjective

Prone adj.

Bending forward; inclined; not erect. "Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone."

Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; opposed to supine. "Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone."

Headlong; running downward or headlong. "Down thither prone in flight."

Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level. "Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking land."

Inclined; propense; disposed; applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to. "Prone to mischief." "Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy."

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Etymology of 'Prone'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prone" Quotes from Famous Books

... stood calmly confronting the Fool-Killer, whose grave face never changed in expression as he advanced menacingly upon his intended victim. The blades clashed together, and that of the Fool-Killer broke short off at the hilt. He took a step backward, stumbled and fell prone upon the rocky floor, while Prince Marvel sprang forward and pressed the point of his sword against his ...

— The Enchanted Island of Yew • L. Frank Baum

... fact, pretty well played out, both mentally and physically. Certainly, that he should require a doctor and be confined to the house could not arouse suspicion even in the minds of those alert, aristocratic thugs of the Crime Club, prone as they would be to suspect anything—a man who had been knocked unconscious in an automobile smash the night before, had been in a fight, had been subjected to a terrific mental shock, to say nothing of the infernal drug that had been administered to him, might well be expected to ...

— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

... face, the brute's body—Spiritualism and Materialism in one! It is life, and more than life; it is love. Forever and forever it teaches the same wonderful, terrible mystery. We aspire, yet we fall; love would fain give us wings wherewith to fly; but the wretched body lies prone—supine; it cannot soar to ...

— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli

... corresponding to the axis of the fissure; the foot bones were to the west, at the mouth of the cave, and the crania were in the tapered interior. The published report does not indicate whether placement was prone or supine. ...

— A Burial Cave in Baja California - The Palmer Collection, 1887 • William C. Massey

... on the Sunday morning, being the first of June, that the election was to be made, after Prone, in church. Prone is an exhortation or lecture, read by the priest at mass, in which he announces the holy days ...

— The Young Lord and Other Tales - to which is added Victorine Durocher • Camilla Toulmin

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