¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Genuflects
1. genuflect [v] - See also: genuflect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genuflects
Literary usage of Genuflects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The priest then turns to the table, genuflects, and takes the particle ...
If a particle remain in the pyx, the priest genuflects, puts the pyx in the burse ..."
2. The Ceremonies of the Mass by William McGarvey, Charles Philip Augustus Burnett (1905)
"He makes the first swing as the Celebrant genuflects immediately after he ...
First, when the Celebrant genuflects; next, when he elevates the host; and, ..."
3. Notes on the rubrics of the Roman Ritual. [With] by James O'Kane (1867)
"if there be only a few, on the patena: and keeping the thumb and index of each
hand joined, he again genuflects and (the clerk having in the meantime said ..."
Other Resources:
Galician