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alit

[ uh-lit ]

verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of alight 1.


alit

/ əˈlɪt /

verb

  1. a rare past tense and past participle of alight 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

A belated song-sparrow alit on one of the old guns near them, and sang thinly for a moment or two.

It flew circling among the crags, and once I thought it had passed seaward; but it came again, and alit on a boulder.

Alit et ditat is the inscription which stands, rightly and properly, on the front of the building.

Mrs. Baring said that when Plonplon, commonly called Fatalit, was ill, the people said he was Fat alit.

We alit before a stately hermitage, set amidst the evergreen trees of well-kept grounds.

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