dight
/daɪt/
Meaning
Adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.
To deal with; to handle.
Adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.
Finely.
To adorn, decorate or furnish; to dress, array, or deck out.
To make ready; to prepare.
Adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.
Finely.
To adorn, decorate or furnish; to dress, array, or deck out.
To make ready; to prepare.
Examples
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.
[…]It sways upon a billow foam-befrilled, / Dighted with precious gems[…]
Word Forms
dighter
dightest
dights
dighting
dight
dighted
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; 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