dight
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of dight
before 1000; Middle English dighten, Old English dihtan to arrange, compose < Latin dīctāre ( see dictate); cognate with German dichten
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Big Ben itolled; an impressive silence fell; the assemblage rose; the English Judges, richly dight, proceeded majestically behind the Golden Mace of the House of Lords and the Lord High Chancellor's purse-bearer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such archaisms as "dight," "say him nay," "fain," such clicheés as "balmy breezes," "surly portals" are all shoddy stuff.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Evening World's democratic clientele had heard about Edward of Wales' crawling on hands and knees through alleys in London's Limehouse district, accompanied by gorgeously dight female companions, nosing out clues to pots of gold.
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His friends, in turn, are prone to exalt him as a Galahad of the masses, dight in spotless, and stripeless, armor.
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I saw a church was fret with gold, With arras richly dight: There saw I altar, pall, and pix, Chalice, and font, and crucifix, And tapers burning bright.”
From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Sutherland Menzies
He took down the fiddle as dowie it hung, An' put a' the thairms in tune, The young widow dighted her cheeks an' she sung, For her heart lap her sorrows aboon.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
I dighted aye her e'en sae blue, An' bann'd the cruel randy, And weel I wat, her willin' mou Was sweet as sugar-candie.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Then the young Hero dighted Him: Almighty God was He: Steadfast and very stout of heart mounted the shameful tree, Brave in the sight of many there, when man He fain would free.
From Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days by Emily Hickey
There Beowulf was not; 1300 Another house soothly had erewhile been dighted After gift of that treasure to that great one of Geats.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
Probably corrupted from the word decked, or the nearly obsolete dighted.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
Morton, as he followed her into the room, underwent a rebuke for not "dighting his shune," which showed that Ailie had not relinquished her habits of authority.
From Old Mortality, Volume 2. by Sir Walter Scott
When I was in the Elves’ houses, they will have very ... them whytting and dighting; and the Devil gives them to us, each of us so many, when....
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
When they woke again the sun was high above their heads, and they saw the Sage dighting their breakfast.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
Who then was was full of smiles and soft words save the chapman; he bade the Knight into his tent most sweetly, and set his folk to dighting a noble dinner.
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
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