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dight

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10
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10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/daɪt/ (UK)
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/daɪt/ (UK) · [dʌɪt]

Definition of dight

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic, rare)Adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.
    “Right against the eastern gate, / Where the great sun begins his state, / Robed in flames, and amber light, / The clouds in thousand liveries dight[…].”
    “[…]the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight.”
    “[…]nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she; for she is prime in comeliness and seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her cheek is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite.”
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adj

  1. (archaic, rare)Adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.
    “Right against the eastern gate, / Where the great sun begins his state, / Robed in flames, and amber light, / The clouds in thousand liveries dight[…].”
    “[…]the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight.”
    “[…]nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she; for she is prime in comeliness and seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her cheek is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite.”

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To deal with; to handle.
  2. (archaic, transitive)To adorn, decorate or furnish; to dress, array, or deck out.
    “[…]It sways upon a billow foam-befrilled, / Dighted with precious gems[…]”
  3. (archaic, transitive)To make ready; to prepare.

adv

  1. (obsolete, transitive)Finely.

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Etymology

From Middle English dighten, dihten, (also dyten, from whence dite), from Old English dihtan, dihtian (“to set in order; dispose; arrange; appoint; direct; compose”), from Proto-West Germanic *dihtōn (“to compose;…

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From Middle English dighten, dihten, (also dyten, from whence dite), from Old English dihtan, dihtian (“to set in order; dispose; arrange; appoint; direct; compose”), from Proto-West Germanic *dihtōn (“to compose; invent”), of disputed origin. Possibly from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *dīkaną (“to arrange; create; perform”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵ-, *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead; shape; mold; build”), influenced by Latin dictāre; or perhaps from Latin dictāre (“to dictate”) itself. See dictate; and also parallel formations in German dichten, Dutch dichten, Swedish dikta.

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