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▪ I. kneeling, vbl. n.|ˈniːlɪŋ|
[f. kneel v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. kneel; a falling down, or remaining, on the knees in worship, submission, etc.; in quot. 1631, advancing on the knees; formerly often with pl., a genuflexion.
c1200Vices & Virtues 127 Oððer mid cnewlinge, oððer mid swinke. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxvi. 122 Þai do grete wirschepe also to þe sonne, and mase many knelinges þerto. 1509Fisher Fun. Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 294 The blessyd Martha is commended, in orderynge of her soule to god, by often knelynges. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 202 There was..such creeping and kneeling to his Tombe. 1769Junius Lett. xv. (1835) 72 A Court, in which prayers are morality and kneeling is religion. 1881C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley ii. 69 The next time there was a kneeling; that is to say, when the children and Miss Dora went down on their knees, as Frank had never seen any one..except perhaps the clergyman, kneel before.
2. transf. A place or space for kneeling in a place of worship.
1587in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 105 Highest place in that form where they have been and are accustomed to be and have their kneeling. 1645Habington Surv. Worc. in Worc. Hist. Soc. Proc. III. 507 In the..highest windowe, under which Habington's auncesters haue formerly had theyre kneelinge. 1852Ecclesiologist XIII. 309 The Chapel of the Holy Trinity, which..is also furnished with similar kneelings. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. 116 Space beyond that which is required for the sittings or kneelings of the average place of worship.
3. Comb., as kneeling-cushion, kneeling-desk, kneeling-mat, kneeling-place, kneeling-stool, kneeling-support; † kneeling-rail, a rail of triangular section, to the vertical face of which the pales or boards of a fence are nailed; kneeling-sap, a mode of sapping in military engineering (see quot.).
1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 368 Chickerel turned towards the chancel, his eye being attracted by a red *kneeling-cushion.
1647in Archives of Maryland (1887) IV. 321 A *kneeling desk, & a picture of Paules. 1853Dale tr. Baldeschi's Ceremonial 200 note, An uncovered kneeling-desk before the Altar.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 231/4, 2 Housemaid's *Kneeling Mats—0 2 [s] 6 [d]. 1969Kneeling mat [see kneeler 4].
a1847Eliza Cook Thanksgiving ii, My temple dome is Thy broad sky, my *kneeling-place Thy sod.
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 217 Making and setting up of Palisado⁓pales (if the Heads are handsomely cut,..and the Rails, *Kneeling-rails) is worth 14s. per Rod.
1884Mil. Engineering I. ii. 72 The mode of executing the sap..is done in two ways, called, *kneeling sap, and standing sap, from the attitude in which the leading sappers work... In the kneeling sap it is imperative to use shields for the protection of the sappers.
1844C. M. Yonge Abbeychurch v. 64 Do you not remember how much trouble Rupert took to find a pattern for the *kneeling-stools? 1881Young Every Man his own Mechanic (ed. 8) 798 Carpeting of a sober pattern..for kneeling stools in a church. 1954W. Hannah Christian by Degrees xii. 167 To the west of the Sepulchre is a kneeling-stool.
▪ II. ˈkneeling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That kneels (lit. and fig.).
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1317/2 The bowed knees of kneeling hearts. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, v. iii. 132 O happy vantage of a kneeling knee. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 387 On the day when he told the kneeling fellows of Magdalene to get out of his sight.
Hence ˈkneelingly adv., in a kneeling posture, on one's knees.
1388Wyclif Jer. xxxviii. 26 Knelyngli y puttide forth my preiris bifore the kyng. |