Knight
,—a strange sort of an animal into which the king sometimes transforms a man; thus Sir Watkin Lewes, Sir James Saunderson, Sir Jeffrey Dunstan, and Sir Sidney Smith, are knights.
,—a strange sort of an animal into which the king sometimes transforms a man; thus Sir Watkin Lewes, Sir James Saunderson, Sir Jeffrey Dunstan, and Sir Sidney Smith, are knights.
Entry taken from Political Dictionary, edited by Charles Pigott from prison and printed in 1795.