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† ˈknighthed, -hede Obs.
Also kniht-, kniȝt-, etc. (see knight n.); 4 -ed(e, 5–6 Sc. -heid.
[f. knight n. + -head. Cf. next.]
1. The rank of a knight: = knighthood 2.
c1325Metr. Hom. 139 A kniht That thoru kind was bond and thralle Bot knihthed gat he wit catelle. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 960 Schir Rauf gat rewaird to keip his Knichtheid. 1500–20Dunbar Turnament 56 To comfort him, or he raid forder, The Devill off knychtheid gaif him order.
2. The vocation of a knight: = knighthood 3.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xvi. (Magdalene) 70 To k[n]ychthed hyre bruþir lazare Halely hyme gafe, & lytil rocht Of landis. 1490Caxton Eneydos lvi. 153 He hadde lefte his offyce and hadde taken hym self to the fayttes of knygthed. c1500Lancelot 822 He goith ymong them in his hie curage, As he that had of knyghthed the wsage.
3. Knightly character or accomplishments: = knighthood 4.
a1300Cursor M. 8422 To be lered him-self to lede, Wit clerge bath and wit knighthede. c1400Destr. Troy 5549 Of knighthede to count þere was the clene floure. 1450–70Golagros & Gaw. 376 Thai war courtes and couth thair knyghthed to kyth. 1513Douglas æneis vi. vi. 39 Eneas, ful of piete and knychtheid. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 575 Suppois he was of all knychteid the floure.
4. A body of knights, or (= L. mīlitia) of fighting men: = knighthood 5.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxix. (Placidas) 68 A knycht callit placydas Prynce of his knychted was. 1382Wyclif Jer. viii. 1 The sunne, and the moone and al the knyȝthed [1388 knyȝthod, L militia] of heuene. |