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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Such archaisms as "dight," "say him nay," "fain," such clicheés as "balmy breezes," "surly portals" are all shoddy stuff.
From Time Magazine Archive
His friends, in turn, are prone to exalt him as a Galahad of the masses, dight in spotless, and stripeless, armor.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cruel King Coal over London town Evermore year by year doth reign; He is dight in a rich and goodly gown, And he sporteth a monstrous golden chain.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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
I dighted ay her een sae blue, wiped, eyes And bann'd the cruel randy; cursed, scoundrel And weel I wat her willing mou' wot, mouth Was e'en like sugar-candy.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan
Up M'Iver put his shoulders, dighted his blade on a tuft of bog-grass, and whistled a stave of the tune they call "The Desperate Battle."
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
Then the phitoness desired him to eat, and she slew a paschal lamb that she had, and dighted and set it tofore him, and bread.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.
Probably corrupted from the word decked, or the nearly obsolete dighted.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
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 Morris, William
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 Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Morris, May
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