bedight

American

[bih-dahyt] / bɪˈdaɪt /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

bedight, bedight, bedighted, bedighting.

to deck out; array.

bedight British

/ bɪˈdaɪt /

verb

(tr) to array or adorn

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adjective

(past participle of the verb) adorned or bedecked

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Etymology

Origin of bedight

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; be-, dight

Example Sentences

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Where others beheld the glorious virgin, Dulcinea del Toboso, radiant in beauty and bedight with queenly apparel, I saw only the homely milkmaid, with her red elbows and her russet gown.

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The trees with silvery rime bedight Their branches bare.

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The little lad, radiant with pride, the huge bay horse, lean and gaunt and hairy, bedight as never was horse before.

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The prosecutor, with his head conspicuously bedight with sticking-plaster, puffed and grunted up into the witness-box, kissed the book, and was a 'retired commission agent.'

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An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theater, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres.

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