prone

  • 11prone — prone; prone·ly; prone·ness; …

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  • 12prone — [adj1] lying down decumbent, face down, flat, horizontal, level, procumbent, prostrate, reclining, recumbent, resupine, supine; concept 583 Ant. sitting, straight, upright prone [adj2] liable, likely apt, bent, devoted, disposed, exposed, fain,… …

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  • 13prone — Prone, {{t=g}}pronaos.{{/t}} Faire le prone, {{t=g}}pronoian poiéisthai.{{/t}} Forte deriuatur a praeconium demptis aec …

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  • 14prone — ► ADJECTIVE 1) (prone to/to do) likely or liable to suffer from, do, or experience (something unfortunate). 2) lying flat, especially face downwards. 3) archaic with a downward slope or direction. DERIVATIVES proneness noun. ORIGIN Latin pronus… …

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  • 15Prone — Prone, Stadt, so v.w. Prome …

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  • 16prone — I adjective agreeable, apt, bent, biased, compliant, disposed, eager, easily persuaded, favorable, given, inclined, liable, likely, minded, partial, predisposed, proclivis, pronus, propense, ready, tending, well disposed, willing II index… …

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  • 17prone to — index addicted Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 18prôné — prôné, ée (prô né, née) part. passé de prôner. •   La vertu du vieux Caton, Chez les Romains tant prônée, Étoit souvent, nous dit on, De Falerne enluminée, J. B. ROUSS. Odes, II, 2 …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 19PRONE — mons Argiae, apud Herminonem …

    Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • 20prone — late 14c., naturally inclined to something, apt, liable, from L. pronus bent forward, inclined to, from adverbial form of pro forward (see PRO (Cf. pro )). Meaning lying face down is first recorded 1570s. Literal and figurative senses both were… …

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