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Webster 1913 Edition
Dight
Dight
(dīt)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dight
or Dighted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dighting
.] [OF.
dihten
, AS. dihtan
to dictate, command, dispose, arrange, fr. L. dictare
to say often, dictate, order; cf. G. dichten
to write poetry, fr. L. dictare
. See Dictate
.] 1.
To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn.
[Archaic]
“She gan the house to dight.
” Chaucer.
Two harmless turtles,
dight
for sacrifice. Fairfax.
The clouds in thousand liveries
dight
. Milton.
2.
To have sexual intercourse with.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dight
DIGHT
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
dight
dight
English
Verb
dight (third-person singular simple present dights, present participle dighting, simple past and past participle dight or dighted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, handle.
- (obsolete, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (obsolete, transitive) To dispose, put (in a given state or condition).
- (obsolete, transitive) To compose, make.
- 14thc., Anonymous, The Chester Mystery Plays, Noah's Flood,:
- Japhet's Wife: And I will gather chippes here / To make a fyer for you in feare, / And for to dighte your dinnere / Agayne you come in.
- 14thc., Anonymous, The Chester Mystery Plays, Noah's Flood,:
- (archaic, transitive) To furnish, equip.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xv, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:
- And whan balyn was wepenles he ranne in to a chamber for to seke somme wepen / and soo fro chamber to chamber / and no wepen he coude fynde / and alweyes kynge Pellam after hym / And at the last he entryd in to a chambyr that was merueillously wel dyȝte and rychely
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xv, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:
- (archaic, transitive) To dress, array; to adorn.
- 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro:
- Right against the eastern gate, / Where the great sun begins his state, / Robed in flames, and amber light, / The clouds in thousand liveries dight […].
- 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro:
- (archaic, transitive) To make ready, prepare.