a. [f. CHIVALRY + -IC; cf. geometr-ic, etc.] Of or pertaining to chivalry; chivalrous.
1797. Mrs. Radcliffe, Italian (ed. 2), I. 89. The innocence of her, whom you defend with so chivalric an air.
1824. Byron, Deform. Transf., II. ii. ’Gainst a foe I would not warrant thy chivalric heart More than Pelides’ heel.
1824. Campbell, Theodric. Some extant spirit of chivalric kind.
1836. Gentl. Mag., April, 422/1. [At Drury Lane] Chevy Chase a grand chivalric entertainment, was produced.
1879. McCarthy, Own Times, II. xxvii. 319. The spirit of the chivalric days had been restored under better auspices.
