Also 3 kniȝti, 3–4 kniȝte, 4 knyhte, knyȝte. [ME. f. prec.] trans. To dub or create (one) a knight.
a. 1300. K. Horn, 492. Hit nere noȝt forlorn For to kniȝte child Horn. Ibid., 644. Nu is þi wile iȝolde, King, þat þu me kniȝti woldest.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. I. 103. And crist king of kinges kniȝtide [v.r. knyhtide] tene, Cherubin and Seraphin [etc.].
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., III. 1236/1. This man … was knighted by the king.
1627. Drayton, Agincourt, etc. 192. This Drone yet neuer braue attempt that dar’d, Yet dares be knighted.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 299, ¶ 2. I was knighted in the thirty fifth Year of my Age.
1876. J. Saunders, Lion in Path, xii. Sir Richard Constable had been knighted by King James.
Hence Knighted ppl. a.
1656. S. Holland, Don Zara, II. iv. 101. That his Isabel and Mortimer was now compleated by a Knighted Poet.
1896. J. H. Wylie, Hist. Eng. Hen. IV., III. 321. The flood of knighted names in the lists of fighting men.
