单词 | to kneel up |
释义 | > as lemmasto kneel up b. With down (adown): To go down on the knees. So to kneel up, to rise on the knees. ΚΠ a1225 St. Marher. 20 Heo bigon on hire cneon to cneolin adun. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4816 Dun þai kneld [Gött.. knelid, Trin. Cambr. kneled] at his fette. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 1145 Þai knelyd doune at þe water syde. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1321/1 Who..falling downe prostrate on his face, and then kneeling vp, concluded this noble exercise with these words to hir maiestie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. ii. 19 But as for Cæsar, Kneele downe, kneele downe, and wonder. View more context for this quotation 1750 N. Lardner Wks. (1838) III. 292 They kneeled down to the elect to ask their blessing. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna x. xxxix. 231 He knelt down upon the dust. 1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) ii. 11 When I kneel up, early in the morning, in my little bed..to look out. < as lemmas |
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