† aˈdub, v. Obs.
Forms: 5 adube, adubbe, 5–6 adoub(e, 6 addoub(e.
[a. OFr. adube-r, adoube-r, adubbe-r, adoubbe-r, to equip a knight, to array; f. à to + douber to dub.]
1. To invest with the insignia of knighthood; to knight; to dub.
| c 1450 Merlin 122 Thei shull neuer be dubbed of no man till thow a-dubbe hem and yeve hem armes. a 1521 Helyas in Thoms Prose Rom. III. 148, I shal adube you knight. |
2. To equip, array, invest, accoutre.
| 1475 Caxton Jason 28 b, Jason and the Syriens adoubed them. 1480 ― Ovid's Metam. xii. xxii, Appollo adoubed hyme with a thycke clowde. |