dight

[ dahyt ]

verb (used with object)

, dight or dight·ed, dight·ing.

1. Archaic. to dress; adorn.

dight

/ daɪt /

verb

1. to adorn or equip, as for battle

Word History and Origins

Origin of dight¹

before 1000; Middle English dighten, Old English dihtan to arrange, compose < Latin dīctāre ( dictate ); cognate with German dichten

Word History and Origins

Origin of dight¹

Old English dihtan to compose, from Latin dictāre to dictate

Example Sentences

Two quotes greeted me on the home page: Throughout the vast shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet dight with such fearful fascination, as the vampire, who is himself neither ghost nor demon, but yet who partakes the dark natures and possesses the mysterious and terrible qualities of both.

From Literature

“Emongst these leaves she made a Butterflie, With excellent device and wondrous slight, Fluttring among the Olives wantonly, That seem’d to live, so like it was in sight: The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken downe with which his backe is dight, His broad outstretched hornes, his hayrie thies, His glorious colours, and his glistering eies.”

From Project Gutenberg

Come therefore now, my gentle fere, Whom as my heart I hold full dear; Enter my little room, which is Adorned with quaintest rarities: There are the seats with cushions spread, The roof with curtains overhead: The house with flowers of sweetest scent And scattered herbs is redolent: A table there is deftly dight With meats and drinks of rare delight; There too the wine flows, sparkling, free; And all, my love, to pleasure thee.

From Project Gutenberg

For lo! the richly dight hors d'œuvres tray had become a solitude—the component parts thereof were duly discovered by the charwoman next morning amid the foliage of an adjacent palm—and the tail of the last radish was disappearing into Stiffy's mouth.

From Project Gutenberg

In bowers of laurel trimly dight, We will outwear the silent night, While Flora busy is to spread Her richest treasure on our bed.

From Project Gutenberg