society > faith > worship > other practices > carry out other practices [verb (reflexive)] > kneel, bow, or prostrate oneself (3)
transitive (reflexive). To throw oneself flat on the ground so as to be lying face downwards, especially in reverence or submission. Also figurative…
transitive. To cast down or lay flat. Chiefly reflexive: to prostrate oneself.
transitive (reflexive and in passive). = prostrate, v. 4 (sometimes with overtones of sense 2). Cf. prostitute, adj. 4. Obsolete.