Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PROS'TI-TUTE, v.t. [L. prostituo; pro and statuo, to set.]

1. To offer freely to a lewd use, or to indiscriminate lewdness. Do not prostitute thy daughter. Lev. xix.
2. To give up to any vile or infamous purpose; to devote to any thing base; to sell to wickedness; as, to prostitute talents to the propagation of infidel principles; to prostitute the press to the publication of blasphemy.
3. To offer or expose upon vile terms or to unworthy persons. – Tillotson.