He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
I told him you was prostrate with grief. — Mammy to Scarlett, Gone With the Wind.
Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
The ordination ceremony includes a variety of rituals, rich in meaning and history, e.g., the prostration, laying on of hands, anointing of hands, giving of the chalice and paten, and sign of peace. —.