1.a turning oneself towards a god for purification, the supplication of a polluted person, Aesch.:— any address to a god, prayers, id=Aesch., Eur.; προστροπὴν θεᾶς the duty of praying to the goddess, the priestly office, Eur.; πόλεως προστροπήν a petition to the city, Soph.
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