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provolvere [CL], ~ēre 1 to fall forward (so as to prostrate oneself). quapropter ad tanti principis celsitudinem genuflexi ~vimus, humilime [sic] supplicantes Dictamen 351. 2 (trans., refl. or pass) to cause to fall forward, to fall down, prostrate oneself (as gesture of submission). b (~utis genibus) with bent knees. haec audiens ~utus est ejus vestigiis Bede HE IV 27 p. 274; c865 nunc quasi ad presens pedibus tuis ~utus CS 512 p. 124; me ‥ propriis verborum verberibus, tuis ~utus genibus, exonerans affligo B. V. Dunst. prol. p. 3; coram abbate et fratribus crebro ~vebatur petens ut ‥ Ord. Vit. VI 3 p. 10; accidit ut ‥ mulier Kambrica ad pedes regis se ~veret Gir. EH I 38 p. 287; at illa compuncta et ad pedes ejus †prono luta [l. provoluta] dixit Brinton Serm. 41 p. 181.  b homo ‥ Dei ~utis [v. l. ~utus] genibus gratias agens Domino ‥ dixit V. Cuthb. II 4; ~utis genibus adjurantibusque eum per Dominum nostrum Ib. IV 1.

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