v. Obs. Forms: 5 adube, adubbe, 5–6 adoub(e, 6 addoub(e. [a. OFr. adube-r, adoube-r, adubbe-r, adoubbe-r, to equip a knight, to array; f. à to + douber to DUB.]
1. To invest with the insignia of knighthood; to knight; to dub.
c. 1450. Merlin, 122. Thei shull neuer be dubbed of no man till thow a-dubbe hem and yeve hem armes.
a. 1521. Helyas, in Thoms’ E. E. P. Rom., III. 148. I shal adube you knight.
2. To equip, array, invest, accoutre.
1475. Caxton, Jason, 28 b. Jason and the Syriens adoubed them. Ibid. (1480), Ovid’s Metam., XII. xxii. Appollo adoubed hyme with a thycke clowde.
