Word Meanings - KNIGHTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.

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• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• GUILEFUL
  Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. -- Guile"ful*ly, adv. -- Guile"ful*ness, n.
• KNIGHT-ERRANTRY
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young.
• KNIGHT TEMPLAR
  See 3
• KNIGHTLY
  Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit. For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. Spenser. full knightly without scorn. Tennyson.
• GUILELESS
  Free from guile; artless. -- Guile"less*ly, adv. Guile"less*ness, n.
• KNIGHT SERVICE
  A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
• KNIGHTHOOD
  1. The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry. "O shame to knighthood." Shak. If you needs must write, write Cæsar's praise; You 'll gain at least a knighthood, or the bays. Pope. 2. The whole body
• KNIGHT'S FEE
  The fee of a knight; specif., the amount of land the holding of which imposed the obligation of knight service, being sometimes a hide or less, sometimes six or more hides.
• KNIGHT-ER-RATIC
  Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry. Quart. Rev.
• KNIGHT SERVICE; KNIGHT'S SERVICE
  1. The military service by rendering which a knight held his lands; also, the tenure of lands held on condition of performing military service. By far the greater part of England is held of the king by knight's service. . . . In
• KNIGHT-ERRANT
  A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
• GUILE
  Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.
• KNIGHT MARSHAL
  An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties. Wharton.
• KNIGHT BARONET
  See BARONET
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• ALE-KNIGHT
  A pot companion.