knightship

noun

Etymology

From knight + -ship.

  1. inherited from *kneht
  2. inherited from cniht
  3. inherited from knight
  4. suffixed as knightship — “knight + ship

Definitions

  1. The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.

    • No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.
  2. Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive…

    Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.

    • Fare your knightship well.
  3. A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces…

    A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA