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bedight

[ bih-dahyt ]

verb (used with object)

, Archaic.
, be·dight, be·dight or be·dight·ed, be·dight·ing.
  1. to deck out; array.


bedight

/ bɪˈdaɪt /

verb

  1. tr to array or adorn
“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

adjective

  1. past participle of the verb adorned or bedecked
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of bedight1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; be-, dight
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bedight1

C14: from dight
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Example Sentences

Where others beheld the glorious virgin, Dulcinea del Toboso, radiant in beauty and bedight with queenly apparel, I saw only the homely milkmaid, with her red elbows and her russet gown.

The trees with silvery rime bedight Their branches bare.

The little lad, radiant with pride, the huge bay horse, lean and gaunt and hairy, bedight as never was horse before.

The prosecutor, with his head conspicuously bedight with sticking-plaster, puffed and grunted up into the witness-box, kissed the book, and was a 'retired commission agent.'

An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theater, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres.

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