Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An obsolete occasional spelling of dight.
- To dictate: as, you write, I'll dite.
- To write.
- n. A Middle English form of dit and ditty.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete, transitive To prepare for use or action; to make ready.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To prepare for action or use; to make ready; to dight.
Etymologies
- See dight. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A "dite" is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.”
“Une seule application s'est imposée, liée à l'écran TV, c'est celle "dite" des jeux vidéo qui, elle, s'est largement répandue.”
“Dramatic pauses inserted in the dance "La Georgienne, dite La Maupertuis" cut up the phrases into angry gestures.”
“Devo dire che se non sfondate con questo, dite pure addio ai vostri sogni... hihihihi”
“Discovering that it was anthropology, describing village life in the Trobriand Islands, he boasted that it proved he was an intellectual, and flashed it like a badge, saying, "I'm real area-dite.”
“To distinguish semantically between "gourmandise" in its proper application ( "la gourmandise proprement dite") and the common understanding of "gourmandise" as gluttony one must partake in the gourmand's powers of discrimination — unlike the lexicographers, but quintessentially like Savarin, whose prose, in portraying the gourmand's enjoyment of his expertise, takes pleasure it itself.”
Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
“Un consiglio: se vi chiedono di sviluppare ed implementare un modulo per supportare le bozze in un database complesso gestito da un software PHP4, non orientato agli oggetti e progettato senza metodo, dite loro che è impossibile.”
“C n'est qu'une confusion perpetuelle de la gourmandise proprement dite avec la gloutonnerie et la voracité: d'où j'ai conclu que les lexicographes, quoique très-estimables d'ailleurs, ne sont pas de ces savants aimables qui embouchent avec grace une aile de perdrix au suprême pour l'arroser, le petit doigt en l'air, d'un verre de vin de Laffitte ou de clos Vougeout.”
Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire'
“Like I said, I'm just not going to engage in the e-dite commenting you want me to engage in at this time.”
“March 5, 2008 at 10:13 am duz taht meen Iz in trubble ifs ai lyks de dite cokity cola moor betterer? wii can haz choklilt martoonis insted?”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dite’.
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Comicana Symbolia
I find these to be endlessly amusing, both as an appreciator of words and one of comics (some are better than others). See Wikipedia (and most likely Google) for illustrations. Feel free to discuss...
grawlix, plewd, briffit, squean, emanata, agitron, hite, lucaflect, solrad, swalloop, dite, waftarom and 2 more...
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W.E.L.D.E.R.
réchauffé, gast, dere, heller, arête, wair, tut, shad, tipi, emeu, codon, unco and 65 more...
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