Dight
adj, adv, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 To deal with; to handle. obsolete, transitive
- 2 To adorn, decorate or furnish; to dress, array, or deck out. archaic, transitive
"[…]It sways upon a billow foam-befrilled, / Dighted with precious gems[…]"
- 3 To make ready; to prepare. archaic, transitive
- 1 Adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out. archaic, rare
"Right against the eastern gate, / Where the great sun begins his state, / Robed in flames, and amber light, / The clouds in thousand liveries dight[…]."
- 1 Finely. obsolete, transitive
Example
More 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[…]."
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; and also parallel formations in German dichten, Dutch dichten, Swedish dikta.
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