dight

Adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.

Adjective

  1. Adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.
    • Right against the eastern gate, / Where the great sun begins his state, / Robed in flames, and amber light, / The clouds in thousand liveries dight[…]. - 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro:
    • […]the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight. - 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The...
    • […]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...

Origin

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.

Forms

dighter dightest

Synonyms

apparel fit out kit out clothe don put on

Adverb

  1. Finely.

    Synonyms: dightly

Verb

  1. To deal with; to handle.
  2. To adorn, decorate or furnish; to dress, array, or deck out.
    • […]It sways upon a billow foam-befrilled, / Dighted with precious gems[…] - 1898, Florence G. Attenborough, "An Opium Dream":
  3. To make ready; to prepare.

Forms

dights dighting dight dighted

Derived

adight bedight benedight dighter maledight misdight overdight undight