Knightly adv.

[f. KNIGHT sb. + -LY².] After the fashion of, or in a manner befitting, a knight; gallantly, chivalrously.

c. 1385.  Chaucer, L. G. W., 2085, Ariadne. God … synde ȝow grace … Ȝow to defende & knyghtly slen ȝoure fo.

c. 1477.  Caxton, Jason, 79 b. They dyde so knyghtly and cheuaulerously.

1593.  Shaks., Rich. II., I. iii. 12. Say … why thou com’st thus knightly clad in Armes?

1822.  Byron, Werner, IV. i. Whose plume nods knightlier?

1859.  Tennyson, Guinevere, 40. He … Made such excuses as he might, and these Full knightly without scorn.

  Knight Marshal (a title of certain marshals who were knights): see MARSHAL.