knight

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Then he leapt upon the knight, and took him by the middle and threw him down; but the knight was a passing strong man, and anon he brought Arthur under him, and would have razed off his helm to slay him.

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  1. noun A medieval tenant giving military service as a mounted man-at-arms to a feudal landholder.
  2. noun A medieval gentleman-soldier, usually high-born, raised by a sovereign to privileged military status after training as a page and squire.
  3. noun A man holding a nonhereditary title conferred by a sovereign in recognition of personal merit or service to the country.
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  • And having learned to whom it belonged, he bethought him that, as the knight was an adherent of the party opposed to him, he would use more familiarity towards him than he would otherwise have done; and so he sent him word that he and four comrades would sup privily with him in his garden on the ensuing evening. —  The Decameron, Volume II
  • Then he leapt upon the knight, and took him by the middle and threw him down; but the knight was a passing strong man, and anon he brought Arthur under him, and would have razed off his helm to slay him. —  The Age of Fable
  • So, as the knight was aiming a second blow, one of the damsels crieth to him, "And you would have my love for evermore, throw down the axe and cry the knight quit! —  The High History of the Holy Graal
  • The companion of the knight was as evidently a Saxon, as the knight was unequivocally a Norman. —  Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 06
  • The great patrimony of the knight was his horse, his armor, and his valor. —  Beacon Lights of History
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  1. Middle English, from Old English cniht.

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  1. from Middle English knight, knyght, kniʒt, knyʒt, kniht, cniht, from Anglo-Saxon cniht, cnyht, rarely cneoht, a boy, youth, attendant, servant, = OFries. kniucht, knecht = Dutch knecht, a servant, = Middle Low German knecht, Low German knecht, knekt = Old High German cneht, kneht, chneht, gneht, Middle High German kneht, knecht, a boy, youth, attendant, knight, German knecht, a servant, = Danish knegt, man-servant, knave (at cards), = Swedish knekt, a soldier, a knave (at cards) (Scandinavian forms prob. from D. or G.); perhaps orig. *cyniht, with orig. adjective suffix -iht, from cyn, kin, race, tribe; or, like knave of same orig. meaning, from the same Teutonic root kan, appearing in ken and kin, etc.
 

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