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Webster 1913 Edition
Kneel
Kneel
(nēl)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Knelt
(nĕlt)
or Kneeled
(nēld); p. pr. & vb. n.
Kneeling
.] To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; – sometimes with
down
. And he
kneeled
down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. Acts vii. 60.
As soon as you are dressed,
kneel
and say the Lord’s Prayer. Jer. Taylor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Kneel
KNEEL
,Verb.
I.
As soon as you are dressed,kneel down and say the Lord's prayer.
Definition 2024
kneel
kneel
English
A statue of a man kneeling
Verb
kneel (third-person singular simple present kneels, present participle kneeling, simple past and past participle knelt or kneeled)
- (intransitive) To stoop down and rest on the knee or knees.
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter III”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
- When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
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Translations
to stoop down and rest on the knee
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