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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. Archaic To dress; adorn.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To set in order; arrange; dispose.
  2. Reflexively, to set or address.
  3. To put into a certain condition or position.
  4. To dispose of; treat.
  5. To prepare; make ready.
  6. To prepare or make ready by dressing or cooking.
  7. To prepare or make ready by equipping or arraying; dress; equip; array; deck; adorn.
  8. To put into the proper or any desired condition by removing obstructions or inequalities; dress; clean. specically — To dress or smooth, as a stone by chiseling or a board by planing.
  9. By sifting or winnowing: as, to dight corn. [In sense 6, Scotch (pronounced dicht and sometimes spelled dicht) and North. Eng.]
  10. Finely; well.

Wiktionary

  1. v. obsolete, transitive To deal with, handle.
  2. v. obsolete, transitive To have sexual intercourse with.
  3. v. obsolete, transitive To dispose, put (in a given state or condition).
  4. v. obsolete, transitive To compose, make.
  5. v. archaic, transitive To furnish, equip.
  6. v. archaic, transitive To dress, array; to adorn.
  7. v. archaic, transitive To make ready, prepare.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. Archaic To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn.
  2. v. obsolete To have sexual intercourse with.

Etymologies

  1. Old English dihtan, from Latin dictāre. Compare dictate; and also parallel formations in German dichten, Dutch dichten, Swedish dikta. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English dighten, from Old English dihtan, to arrange, from Latin dictāre, to dictate, order; see dictate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “When I read the word "dight," my mind went immediately back to Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, l. 146, "in Omer, or in Dares, or in Dyte.”

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  • “The latest entry Sommer prowde with Daffadillies dight, Posted Saturday, April 30, 2005—there are no permalinks focuses on the word "dight," which I knew as an archaic word for 'adorn'; I probably once knew, but had forgotten, that it was from Latin dictāre 'to dictate, order.”

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  • “Question about the etymology- although 'dight' surely does look derived from 'dictare', can't it also be some variant of 'decked'?”

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  • “I wonder which sense of "dight" gave rise to its use in a sexual context: "adorn, decorate" or "order, dictate.”

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  • “Indeed, Moulsworth vows to transmute the faulty model provided by the Biblical Martha, the archetypal busy housewife: Moulsworth plans to "dight" (or make ready) her "Inward house" (l. 19) and thus prepare an appropriate habitation for Christ.”

    My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem

  • “Let's not lose dight of the main objective: a Democrat in the White House.”

    SurveyUSA: Clinton Ahead By 16 Points In Indiana Primary

  • “Father, thou hearest thy children's lamentation; say, shall I e'er, as warrior dight, avenge thy slaughter?”

    The Suppliants

  • “So they arrayed them in gold and many a fair thing, and she went with her damsels till they came to the hall of Brynhild, and that hall was dight with gold, and stood on a high hill; and whenas their goings were seen, it was told Brynhild, that a company of women drove toward the burg in gilded waggons.”

    The Story of the Volsungs

  • “I give thee gold and all kinds of good things to take to thee after thy father, dear bought rings and bed-gear of the maids of the Huns, the most courteous and well dight of all women; and thus is thy husband atoned for: and thereafter shalt thou be given to”

    The Story of the Volsungs

  • “Sharrkan looked at her his wits went nigh to fly away from him with delight; and he forgot army and Wazir as he gazed on her fair head decked and dight with a net work of pearls set off by divers sorts of gems.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

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  • jmjarmstrong JM dutifully dights daily. Feb 3, 2011

  • reesetee Heehee! Nov 15, 2009

  • mollusque If those don't fill you up, try these. Nov 15, 2009

  • Prolagus Too bad. Want to talk about it? If you're on a dight you can still have some of these. Nov 15, 2009

  • bilby I've been on a dight. Lost my appetite for words, word-adding and word-commenting :-( Nov 15, 2009

  • Prolagus Bilby! Here you are! Nov 15, 2009

  • bilby To eat certain foods and not others. Nov 15, 2009

  • yarb Gaily bedight, a gallant knight... Jan 15, 2009

  • hernesheir (v): to equip, prepare; to adorn. Jan 15, 2009

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