kneele

English

kneele

Obsolete form of kneel.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “[Apophthegm 213]”, in Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC, page 234:
  [T]he poſture of the Confeſſant and the Prieſt in Confeſsion: which is, that the Confeſſant kneeles downe before the Prieſt ſitting in a raiſed chaire aboue him.