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ts or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army. Such and so numerous was their chivalry. Milton.

hing; the birth. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry. Burke.

, of love, and the like. "Romances that been royal." Chaucer. Upon these three columns -- chivalry, gallantry, and religion -- repose the fictions of the Middle Ages, especially those known as romances. These, such as we now know them, and such as display the characteristics above mentioned, were originally metrical, a…

tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent. [Written also soccage.]

The body of squires, collectively considered; squirarchy. [Obs.] The flower of chivalry and squiry. Ld. Berbers.

t of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk. Dryden. I have a truant been to chivalry. Shak. To play truant, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out of school without leave. Sir T. Browne