单词 | to be knelt to |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ 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 α. 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].?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. < as lemmas |
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