deprostrate

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ prostrate, with de- as an intensifier.

Adjective

deprostrate (comparative more deprostrate, superlative most deprostrate)

1. (Early Modern, obsolete, poetic, rare) Fully prostrate; humble; low.
   • 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heauen, and Earth, over, and after death‎^[1], stanza 43, page 13:

     How may weake mortall euer hope to file / His vnsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate stile?

   • 1620 September 10, George Langford, Manassehs Miracvlovs Metamorphosis […]‎^[2], published 1621, page 21:

     Hitherto you haue seene Manasses, not with Lots wife, trãsform’d into a pillar of Salt, but with the Poets Niobe, into a weeping and waimenting stone: now shall you see him with an humble and lowly heart, raising his ruined soule, deprest with sinne, deprostrate for sinne; lifting vp his bleared eyes, streaming with teares, swelling for sorrow […]

   • c. 1621, Thomas Robinson, edited by H. Oskar Sommer, The Life and Death of Mary Magdalene, published 1899, stanza 10, page 12:

     The nations came to her deprostrate bed

References

• “deprostrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.