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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[AS.

cnihtlic

boyish.]

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.

[Excuses] full

knightly

without scorn.

Tennyson.

adv.

In a manner becoming a knight.

And why thou comest thus

knightly

clad in arms.

Shakespeare

Adj.

Pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; as a knightly combat.