knight.

“See that your halter be a silken one, then,” laughed Amyas, “for I am just dubbed knight.”

Westward Ho! 2007

Quixote; "for to engage in battles of this sort it is not requisite to be a dubbed knight."

Don Quixote 2002

They lived this death in life till the same year -- eight days before the Feast of St. John -- the varlet was dubbed knight.

French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie de France

Once he kindly placed his hand upon the boy's shoulder and Hushiel felt as proud as a young squire whom his master had dubbed knight.

The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country Elma Ehrlich Levinger

He who captures Queen Helen VIII and brings her to me alive will be dubbed a knight.

The Adventures of Maya the Bee Waldemar Bonsels 1919

The blow upon the cheek, significant of the warfare in which the resolute Christian is engaged, is of much later date and probably imitated from the sword blow by which the young Teutonic warrior was dubbed a knight.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Then said the Count of Beaucaire to his son Aucassin that he should go to battle and win his spurs and be dubbed a knight.

In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

When he reached the shrine he hung his arms up as a votive offering, and performed the vigil which chivalrous custom exacted from a squire before the morning of his being dubbed a knight.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

"See that your halter be a silken one, then," laughed Amyas, "for I am just dubbed knight."

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

"In that thou wilt do what is thy duty, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "for to engage in battles of this sort it is not requisite to be a dubbed knight."

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581