PROSTITUTE

v. a. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. "Do not prostitute thy daughter." Lev. xix. 29.

2.
v.

To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers. Milton.

3.
a.

Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes. Made bold by want, and prostitute for bread. Prior

4.
n.

A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.

5.
n.

A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire. No hireling she, no prostitute to praise. Pope.