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prostrator rare.|ˈprɒstreɪtə(r), prɒˈstreɪtə(r)|
[a. late L. prōstrātor, agent-n. f. prōstern-ĕre: see prostern.]
1. One who overthrows or throws down prostrate.
1659Gauden Tears Ch. ii. xii. 189 Common people..are the great and infallible prostrators of all Religion, vertue, honour, order, peace, civility and humanity, if left to themselves. 1818Bentham Ch. Eng. 165 [The] Bishop of London..Prostrator-General of understandings and wills.
2. Eccl. Hist. Used (chiefly pl.) as a rendering of Gr. γονυκλίνοντες, ὑποπίπτοντες, or L. genuflectentes, prostrati, the third order of penitents in the early Church (see quots.). Cf. kneeler 2.
1709J. Johnson Clergym. Vade M. ii. 51 Next above the Hearers were the ὑποπιπτοντες, Prostrators, so call'd because tho' they were dismissed with the Catechumens, yet not before they had prostrated themselves before Bishop, Clergy, and Communicants. 1711Hickes Two Treat. Chr. Priesth. (1847) II. 303 They put down those..into the station of penitents and prostrators. 1843Hammond Def. Faith Œcum. Councils 31 The third order of penitents, called..kneelers or prostrators, because they were allowed to remain and join in certain prayers particularly made for them, whilst they were kneeling, or prostrate on the ground. |