Definition of "kneele"

[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.

1625, Francis [Bacon], “”, in Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], page 234