dight

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  1. transitive verb Archaic To dress; adorn.

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  • The Athenaeum a fortnight since drew forth a batch of these jests with antique humour richly dight, and here they are. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832
  • Or who shall dight** your bowres, sith she is dead That was the lady of your holy-dayes? —  The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5
  • And because I knew Waldron's word is ever less than his deed, and, belike, that I grow weary of sieges (seven have I withstood within these latter years) I, at dead of night, by devious and secret ways, stole forth of Thrasfordham--dight in this armour new-fashioned (the which, mark me! —  Beltane the Smith
  • The Sworder granted this and Alaeddin glanced first to the right where he saw none to aidance dight, and then to the left where he found all favour reft; and the spectators each and every hung their heads groundwards for awe of the Caliph, nor did any take upon himself to utter a kindly word. —  Arabian nights. English
  • Then the Islamite host advanced and offered fight with weapons ready dight, and King Zau al-Makan and Afridun made to charge one at other. —  Arabian nights. English
 

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  1. Middle English dighten, from Old English dihtan, to arrange, from Latin dictāre, to dictate, order; see dictate.

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  1. from Middle English dighten, dihten, digten (later sometimes without the guttural, dyten, etc.), from Anglo-Saxon dihtan (preterit dihte, past participle ge-diht), set in order, arrange, direct, dispose, prescribe, = Dutch dichten = 0HG. dihtōn, Middle High German G. dichten, invent, write verses, = Icelandic dikta, compose in Latin, romance, lie, = Swedish dikta, feign, fable, = Danish digte, invent, romance, write verses, from Latin dictare, repeat, pronounce, dictate for writing, compose, order, prescribe, dictate: see dictate, v.
  2. from dight, pp.
 

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