PRONE

a.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
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Bending forward; inclined; not erect. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone. Milton.

2.
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Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine. Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone. Byron.

3.
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Headlong; running downward or headlong. "Down thither prone in flight." Milton.

4.
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Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level. Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking land. Blackmore.

5.
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Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to. "Prone to mischief." Shak. Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy. Landor.

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