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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prostituted}; p.
pr & vb n. {Prostituting}.] [L. prostitutus p. p. of
prostituere to prostitute; pro before forth + statuere to
put place See {Statute}.]
1. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use to give up to
lewdness for hire. ``Do not prostitute thy daughter.''
--Lev. xix. 29.
2. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low
or indiscriminate use as to prostitute talents; to
prostitute official powers. --Milton.
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