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Definition of Prostrations
1. prostration [n] - See also: prostration
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prostrations
Literary usage of Prostrations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: Description of Their Manners by B. Mir Hasan 'Ali, B Mrs Mīr Ḣasan 'Alī, B. Mı̄r Ḣasan ʻAlı̄ (1832)
"Their different names and times.—Extra prayer-service.—The Mosque.—Ablutions
requisite previous to devotion.— prostrations at prayers.—Mosque described. ..."
2. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: Description of Their Manners by B. Mir Hasan 'Ali, B Mrs Mīr Ḣasan 'Alī, B. Mı̄r Ḣasan ʻAlı̄ (1832)
"Their different names and times.—Extra prayer-service.—The Mosque.—Ablutions
requisite previous to devotion.— prostrations at prayers.—Mosque described. ..."
3. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: Descriptive of Their Manners by Hasan 'Ali, B. Mir Hasan 'Ali, Mrs B Mı̄r Ḣasan ʻAlı̄, B. Mīr Ḣasan ʻAlī (1832)
"Their different names and times.—Extra prayer-service.—The Mosque.—Ablutions
requisite previous to devotion.— prostrations at prayers.—Mosque described. ..."
4. Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of by Forster, R. P (1818)
"prostrations, and next proclaimed a list of the presents for the ting. These several
readings being finished, he repeated his obeisance and retired: after ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1911)
"To many Russians worship is chiefly reverence of the icons by crossing themselves,
lighting candles, prostrations, and genuflexions. Sermons are rare. ..."
6. Turkey and Its Destiny: The Result of Journeys Made in 1847 and 1848 to by Charles MacFarlane (1850)
"... Finance Minister — The House of a Turkish Effendi — Aversion to the Society
of Europeans — Emin Pasha, and a Combat with Dogs — prostrations of an ..."
7. The Year of Grace: A History of the Ulster Revival of 1859 by William Gibson (1860)
"Annual Meeting in the Irish Metropolis—Conference on the Revival —A Minister's
Statement there—Conversion of Four Brothers of the Manse—The prostrations and ..."
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