Prone

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Prone

[L. pronus, akin to Gr. (?), (?), Skr. pravana sloping, inclined, and also to L. pro forward, for. See Pro-.]

Bending forward; inclined; not erect.

Towards him they bend
With awful reverence prone. Milton.

Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine.

Which, as the wind,
Blew where it listed, laying all things prone. Byron.

Headlong; running downward or headlong.

"Down thither prone in flight." Milton.

Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.

Since the floods demand,
For their descent, a prone and sinking land. Blackmore.

Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.

"Prone to mischief." Shak.

Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy. Landor.

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