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TITLE |
Knighthood |
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UNKNIGHT |
To deprive of knighthood. |
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BACHELRY |
The body of young aspirants for knighthood. |
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CHEVALIER |
A member of certain orders of knighthood. |
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DUB |
To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son
Henry a knight. |
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CHIVALRY |
The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages,
or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry. |
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BANNERET |
A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence,
an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank. |
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ACCOLADE |
A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood,
consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat
blade of a sword. |
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-HOOD |
A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character,
totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes
it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head. |
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GARTER |
The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood
in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward
III.; also, the Order itself. |
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KNIGHT |
One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of
baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed
as Sir; as, Sir John. |
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DECORATION |
Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the
person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood,
bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art,
etc. |
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SPUR |
...el, of a
horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small
wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knig... |
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CRESCENT |
Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first
instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the
second by Rene of Anjou, in ... |