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单词 to be knelt to
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to be knelt to
a. intransitive. To fall on the knees or a knee; to assume, or remain in, a posture in which the body is supported on the bended knees or on one of them, as in supplication or homage. Const. to; also, with indirect passive, to be knelt to. Sometimes of the knee: To bend to the ground in supplication or reverence.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or act of kneeling > kneel or assume kneeling posture [verb (intransitive)]
kneel?a1000
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > respect or show respect [verb (intransitive)] > bow, kneel, or curtsey
loutc825
abowOE
bowa1000
kneel?a1000
kneec1000
crookc1320
to bow the knee1382
inclinec1390
crouchc1394
croukc1394
coucha1500
plya1500
to make or do courtesy1508
beck1535
to make a (long, low, etc.) leg1548
curtsya1556
dopc1557
binge1562
jouk1567
beckon1578
benda1586
humblea1592
vaila1593
to scrape a leg1602
congee1606
to give the stoop1623
leg1628
scrape1645
to drop a curtsy1694
salaam1698
boba1794
dip1818
to make (also perform) a cheese1834
society > faith > worship > other practices > carry out other practices [verb (intransitive)] > kneel, bow, or prostrate oneself
kneel?a1000
fallOE
kneec1000
prostratea1425
genuflect1850
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?a1000 Canons of K. Edgar (Tiber. A.iii) f. 96 Silf he on diglum cneowlie [v.r. (Thorpe Anct. Laws II. 282) gecneowige] gelome and hine on eorðan swiðe aþenie.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 25 After þe forme word of þe salme [þu] abuȝest gode and cnewlest toȝenes him.
c1300 Beket 540 The Bischop of Northwich..Kneulede tofore him wepinge.
c1320 Sir Beues (MS. A) 259 Þerl knewlede to þemperur.
β. c1200 Vices & Virtues 51 He ðat alle cnewes to cnelið.c1200 Vices & Virtues 145 Cnyle ðar niðer to-foren hise fet.?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 19 Buȝeð oðer cneolið.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9968 Þer-to gon cneoli [c1300 Otho cneoly] þe king.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7607 Þis heyemen, in chirche me may yse Knely [v.rr. Kneleþ, Kneuliȝeþ] to god.c1394 P. Pl. Crede 124 Þou chuldest cnely bifore Crist.c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 39 Ther kneled in the heighe weye A compaignye of ladyes.1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 578 The hardy Scottis..Befors off hand gert mony cruell kneill.1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxixv Make your humble confession to almightie God..mekely knelyng vpon your knees.a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 134 You were kneel'd too, & importun'd otherwise By all of vs. View more context for this quotation1637 J. Pocklington Altare Christianum 154 His knees may not buckle to Baal, nor kneele at the Communion.1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 119 On these stones St. Peter kneeled.1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 18 The clerk kneels before the ordinary whilst he reads the words of the institution.1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xvii. 182 The homely altar where they knelt in after life.1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (ed. 2) I. ii. 25 Most of the people around him kneeled.figurative.1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 38 Who in heart not ever kneels.1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 38 Let the will kneel within thy haughty heart.1855 R. Browning Childe Roland xx Low scrubby alders kneeled down over it [the river].
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