<verb.contact> In church you have to kneel during parts of the service
Kneel \Kneel\ (n[=e]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Knelt} (n[e^]lt) or {Kneeled} (n[=e]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Kneeling}.] [OE. knelen, cneolien; akin to D. knielen, Dan. kn[ae]le. See {Knee}.] To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.
Note: The act of kneeling, when performed in front of a person, is often done as a sign of respect, humility, or supplication. It has a similar significance when performed in front of religious objects, such as an altar or shrine. [PJC]
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.
As soon as it is over, the teen-agers crowding the back of the church kneel, cross themselves and head for the basement to dance.
Crowds would collect at times of comings and goings for government changes and over many years a man turned up every day to kneel in the street to pray for the prime minister.
Abdel Aziz Randisi, a pediatrician jailed for six months without trial in the Ketziot prison camp in Israel's Negev Desert, complained to a reporter during a prison tour about being made to kneel down for roll calls and infractions of camp rules.
They scrawled graffiti on walls saying, "We will die but not kneel to the occupation." In the West Bank village of Bidiya, soldiers demolished five houses and sealed another, the army said.
Speculation quickly centered on Karanja who, it was said, arrogantly forced others to kneel before him and was appealing to tribal animosities.
He said they were forced to kneel on the road at gunpoint.
She has difficulty walking and can scarcely kneel to pray.
We take a few steps upstage and kneel with our arms extended.
"Even if we must eat mud, we will not kneel down to any power," says Naji al-Hadithi, Iraq's director general of information.
"In the past, schools felt they were teaching the truth, and everyone would come and kneel at their feet," says Nancy K. Hartigan, an associate dean at Kellogg.
'I certainly do.' Do you kneel down and pray to be told this is the right thing for you? 'Yes.
Prisoners complained of being made to kneel, hands behind their backs, for lengthy, twice-daily roll calls in the scorching heat at the prison, located near the Egyptian border 20 miles south of the occupied Gaza Strip.