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bedight

American  
[bih-dahyt] / bɪˈdaɪt /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.
bedight, bedight, bedighted, bedighting

  1. to deck out; array.

bedight British  
/ bɪˈdaɪt /

verb

  1. (tr) to array or adorn

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adjective

  1. (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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The King and Queen were on their thrones�His Majesty bedight with "the ermine, the purple and the crown."

From Time Magazine Archive

In the afternoon bedight as a Field Marshal, he motored to Victoria Station.

From Time Magazine Archive

Edward of Wales followed, bedight appropriately as a Welsh Guard.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1901 impotent Ad- dresser Gandhi was bedight in the latest British fashion.

From Time Magazine Archive

My dreams are thine, day or night, My sleep sings in silence to the night Of thy delight; May thy heart's gifts like stars my heart's heaven bedight!

From Sandhya Songs of Twilight by Mukerji, Dhan Gopal

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