prostare

1 prostare [CL] 1 to expose oneself for hire (as a prostitute), to prostitute oneself; b (in fig. context); c (in gl.) to associate with or patronize a prostitute. prostibula, meretrix quae prostravit [? l. prostat] GlC P 641.  b justitia dum pretio provenit impretiabilis, et in questu ~at omnia prestans Gir. EH I 46 p. 304; s1251 facta est curia regalis Romane consimilis, in questu pro meretrice sedens, vel ~ans veracius M. Par. Maj. V 199; membra que Diabolo obsequia prostiterant ‥ precidit et Diabolo jactavit Eul. Hist. I 256.  c ~o, -as, i. prostituere, cum meretrice se commiscere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 513. 2 (trans., in gl.) to make a prostitute, to prostitute. prostituere, meretricem facere, quod et ~are dicitur Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 469; Ib. 513 (v. 1c supra). 3 to stand forth (in preparation), stand ready; b (w. ad & gdv.). porte offirmate erant, denseque turbe in propugnaculis et per totum muri ambitum ~abant Ord. Vit. IV 4 p. 180.  b 1295 dictus H. assignavit predictum R. ad ~are ad clausturam ad claudendam curiam eorum communem CourtR Hales I 342.

2 prostare v. prosternere