Word Finder - kneeling

definition

To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.

definition

To cause to kneel.

example

She knelt the doll to fit it into the box.

definition

To rest on (one's) knees

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He knelt him down to pray.

The medic was kneeling beside the injured man.

She retrieved her penlight once more and walked around the room, finally kneeling to look under the bed.

Her heart soared, and she dropped it, kneeling beside him.

In the exciting sport of surf-riding, which always astonishes strangers, they balance themselves lying, kneeling or standing on a small board which is carried landwards on the curling crest of a great roller.

Tell him, he will honor me by meeting me first outside his walls and kneeling as any good slave should.

He closed the door and crossed to her, kneeling in front of her.

And when everything was prepared the prince or subject who was to knight him came into the hall, and, the candidate's sword and spurs having been presented to him, he delivered the right spur to the " most noble and gentle " knight present, and directed him to fasten it on the candidate's right heel, which he kneeling on one knee and putting the candidate's right foot on his knee accordingly did, signing the candidate's knee with the cross, and in like manner by another " noble and gentle " knight the left spur was fastened to his left heel.

Some pieces of sculpture were found here, among them fragments of the Parthenon and a singular relief of Asclepius with a kneeling woman suppliant.

To him at least is due the Prayer-book rubric which explains that, when kneeling at the sacrament is ordered, "no adoration is intended or ought to be done."

The monks, then kneeling, gave him the kiss of peace on the hand, and rising, on the mouth, the abbot holding his staff of office.

Kneeling especially by no means always connotes supreme adoration.

How can a kneeling coward know what it's like to fall?

The body heat of someone kneeling beside her made her blink, and she braced herself for the doc shooting her up again.

In the third he stands almost upright; in the first he kneels; in the second he stoops, halfway between the upright and the kneeling position.

The Madonna is here depicted with various saints, the archangel Michael and St Maurice holding her mantle, which is extended over the kneeling Gianfrancesco Gonzaga, amid a profusion of rich festooning and other accessory.

The choir and the long space between the podia were for ministrants, the podia themselves for kneeling worshippers.

This special feature has been attributed to the Japanese habit of kneeling instead of sitting, but investigation shows that it is equally marked in the working classes who pass most of their time standing.

His body was removed to Rouen, and a magnificent tomb, on which he is represented kneeling in the attitude of prayer, was erected to his memory in the cathedral of that town.

The principal of the clergy present then approaches and gives a palm to the celebrant, who then, in his turn, distributes the branches, first to the principal of the clergy, then to the deacon and subdeacon, and to the other clergy in order of rank, and lastly to the laity, all of whom receive the palms kneeling, and kiss the palm and the hand of the celebrant.

It shows the pope and emperor, with a lute-playing angel between them, kneeling to right and left of the enthroned Virgin and Child, who crown them with rose garlands, with a multitude of other kneeling saints disposed with free symmetry in the background, and farther in the background portraits of the donor and the painter, and a flutter of wreath-carrying cherubs in the air.

Marco (now converted into a national museum), a series of frescoes, beginning towards 1443; in the first cloister is the Crucifixion with St Dominic kneeling; and the same treatment recurs on a wall near the dormitory; in the chapterhouse is a third Crucifixion, with the Virgin swooning, a composition of twenty life-sized figures - the red background, which has a strange and harsh effect, is the misdoing of some restorer; an "Annunciation," the figures of about three-fourths of life-size, in a dormitory; in the adjoining passage, the "Virgin enthroned," with four saints; on the wall of a cell, the "Coronation of the Virgin," with Saints Paul, Thomas Aquinas, Benedict, Dominic, Francis and Peter Martyr; two Dominicans welcoming Jesus, habited as a pilgrim; an "Adoration of the Magi"; the "Marys at the Sepulchre."

The General Assembly of Glasgow in 1638 abjured Laud's book and took its stand again by the Book of Common Order, an act repeated by the assembly of 1639, which also demurred against innovations proposed by the English separatists, who objected altogether to liturgical forms, and in particular to the Lord's Prayer, the Gloria Pcrtri and the minister kneeling for private devotion in the pulpit.

Episcopal seals more generally show the prelate prominently as a standing figure, or, less conspicuously, as kneeling in prayer before the Deity or patron saint; the counterseal also frequently represents him in the same posture of adoration.

According to Vasari the angel kneeling on the left, with a drapery over the right arm, was put ire by Leonardo, and when Verrocchio saw it his sense of its superiority to his own work caused him to forswear painting for ever after.

Thus the Greek and Roman emperors were adored by bowing or kneeling, laying hold of the imperial robe, and presently withdrawing the hand and pressing it to the lips, or by putting the royal robe itself to the lips.

All impediments to clerical marriage were Establish- removed, altars and organs were taken down, old ment of service books destroyed and painted windows broken; Protest- it was even proposed to explain away the kneeling at ansm.

His paper, however, the Point du Jour, according to Aulard, owes its reputation not so much to its own qualities as to the fact that the painter David, in his famous picture of the "Oath in the Tennis Court," has represented Barere kneeling in the corner and writing a report of the proceedings as though for posterity.

The policeman nodded acquiescence, and the man kneeling down placed his bag beside him.

Endless days in the white marble colonnades of Heaven, endless kneeling to the Emperor, endless loss, endless nothingness.

We notice REYES, kneeling behind him attending to the rear derailleur of her racing bike.

The woman kneeling at Michael's feet holds a distaff and a white garment, which she holds out as an offering.

He appears to come to Jesus humbly kneeling with a request.

Double neoprene kneepads to prevent punctures, when kneeling.

Large padded kneeling pad gives you plenty of space.

On Sundays and during the season of Pentecost one should pray standing and not kneeling.

This agreement is represented on coins of Scaurus - Aretas kneeling by the side of a camel, and holding out an olive branch in an attitude of supplication.

It was probably after this that he was allowed to present himself at court, and his contemporaries took a malicious glee in telling how "when, with some difficulty, he obtained leave to kiss the king's hand he, out of guilt, fell backward, as he was kneeling."

Although it must be admitted that the tenacity of the Lombard republics contributed powerfully to the pope's victory, and that the triumph of the Milanese at Legnano (1176) was the determining cause of Frederick's submission at Venice, yet we must not exaggerate the importance of the solemn act by which Barbarossa, kneeling before his conqueror, recognized the spiritual supremacy of the Holy See, and swore fidelity and respect to it.

On the 21st of September 1567 sentence of degradation and death was passed on him and sixteen others, ambassadors from Florence vainly kneeling to the pope for some mitigation, and on the 1st of October he was publicly beheaded and then burned.

Seniors who took part in the USDA study reported problems with walking, running, stooping, crouching, and kneeling, as well as activities such as housework, exercise and gardening.

This means laying on your side, standing for a side pose, or kneeling at an angle that will be make your stomach stand out prominently.

In another example, there's a person kneeling by a gravestone with long hair in her face.

Try squatting, kneeling, or anything else you may do at your ceremony/reception.

Start in a kneeling position with the thighs perpendicular to the floor.

At 5/16 of an inch thick, this mat is extra-cushioning for kneeling postures and head stands.

You can do it in any yoga pose or while kneeling.

For example, you might have a line sitting on the floor, a line kneeling and a line standing.

To perform the reverse lunge, start in the same kneeling position as you started with during the kneeling lunge stretch.

For beginning learners, the kneeling lunge can improve flexibility and take you closer to the splits.

Kneel on the ground as though you were proposing to someone - just the way you would kneel during the kneeling hip flexor stretch.