单词 | knight of the round table |
释义 | > as lemmasKnight of the Round Table Knight of the Round Table n. see Round Table n. Phrases 1. Knight (formerly also †fellow, etc.) of the Round Table P1. Knight (formerly also †fellow, etc.) of the Round Table: any one of King Arthur's knights; (later also) a member of Edward III's Order of the Round Table (see sense 2a). Usually in plural. [Compare Middle French, French chevalier de la table ronde (1534 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier > knight riderlOE Flower of Chivalry1297 Knight (formerly also fellow, etc.) of the Round Tablec1330 chevalier1377 knight voyagerc1500 ritter1577 cavalier1596 knight- c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 6518 (MED) Next hem..Sat þe kniȝtes of þe rounde table. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) viii. 2920 (MED) Al the knihtes of the rounde table..Wer present ther..be oth & promys bounde To brothreed of the table rounde. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 17 (MED) I sall tell ȝow a tale..Off the ryeall renkys of the rownnde table. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail liii. l. 191 (MED) Kyng Vryens..was ful of worthynesse In kyng Arthures tyme..and a felawe was Of the Rownde-table. 1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) iv. iv. sig. fvv By my hede said Arthur he is best worthy to be a knyght of the rounde table of ony that ye haue reherced. a1500 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Douce) 304 (MED) Al þe rial rowte of þe rounde table Þei shullene dye one a day. 1552 in Archaeologia (1863) 39 34 To the knights of the Round Table (if I do it not in my lifetyme) xxs. to be spent at Myle end. 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie i. sig. Z5v Those feats of Chivalry, affabulated to him and his Knights of the Round-table. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Table Paulus Jovius says, 'twas under the Empire of Frederic Barberosa, that the Knights of the Round Table first began to be talk'd of. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxxviii. 619 The gallantry and superstition of the British hero,..and the memorable institution of his Knights of the Round Table. 1803 W. Godwin Life Chaucer I. 133 Edward III..purposing from the knights whose prowess on this occasion should be the most approved, to select the members of his new order, to be styled knights of the Round Table. 1894 Athenæum 22 Dec. 866/3 Prof. Rhys..is not backward in recognizing what may be called the Welshness of the whole body of histories concerned with the ‘blameless king’ and his knights of the Round Table. 1922 W. H. Elson et al. Junior High School Lit. III. ii. 290 The old romances about Arthur and the knights of the Round Table had much to say about a fairy called the Lady of the Lake. 1942 J. W. Bennet Evol. Faerie Queene vii. 83 Arthegall was the most famous of the legendary British earls, a knight of the Round Table in the days of King Arthur. 2004 Time Out N.Y. 7 Oct. 75/1 The charred forests presented in washed-out Cibachromes are like sad remnants of those where Gawain and other knights of the Round Table..found their glory. < as lemmas |
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