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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Knight  \Knight\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Knighted};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Knighting}.] 
  To  dub  or  create  one  a  knight;  --  done  in  England  by  the 
  sovereign  only,  who  taps  the  kneeling  candidate  with  a  sword, 
  saying:  Rise,  Sir  ---. 
 
  A  soldier,  by  the  honor-giving  hand  Of  C?ur-de-Lion 
  knighted  in  the  field.  --Shak. 




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