Synonyms:
chivalric, knightly, medieval
Meaning: characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages; "chivalric rites"; "the knightly years"
Usage examples
Come on, said Merlin, ye shall have great worship, and look that ye do knightly, for ye shall have great need.
And where thou tookest the crown of gold thou sinnest in covetise and in theft: all this were no knightly deeds.
"Nay, nay, my lord," she said to her husband, the Dauphin; "'t is not a knightly act thus to impeach the honor of a noble guest."
But the knights and nobles who followed her banner loudly praised her valor and her fearlessness, and their highest and most knightly vow thereafter was to swear "By the courage of our Princess."
And when the devil saw your pride and presumption, for to take you in the quest of the Sangreal, that made you to be overthrown, for it may not be enchieved but by virtuous living. Also, the writing on the cross was a signification of heavenly deeds, and of knightly deeds in God's works, and no knightly deeds in worldly works.