dight

From Middle English dighten, dihten, (also dyten, from whence dite), from Old English dihtan, dihtian (“to set in order; dispose; arrange; appoint; direct; compose”), from Proto-West Germanic *dihtōn (“to compose; invent”), of disputed origin. Possibly from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *dīkaną (“to arrange; create; perform”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵ-, *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead; shape; mold; build”), influenced by Latin dictāre; or perhaps from Latin dictāre (“to dictate”) itself. See dictate; and also parallel formations in German dichten, Dutch dichten, Swedish dikta.

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /daɪt/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): [dʌɪt]
• Rhymes: -aɪt

dight

1. (rare, archaic) simple past or past participle: adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.
   • 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 […].

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114:

     […] the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     […] nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she; for she is prime in comeliness and seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her cheek is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite.

• (to furnish): apparel, fit out, kit out
• (to dress, array, adorn): clothe, don, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe

dight (third-person singular simple present dights, present participle dighting, simple past and past participle dight or dighted)(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, handle.
2. (archaic, transitive) To adorn, decorate or furnish; to dress, array, or deck out.
   • 1898, Florence G. Attenborough, "An Opium Dream"‎^[1]:

     […] It sways upon a billow foam-befrilled, / Dighted with precious gems […]

3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (archaic, transitive) To make ready, prepare.

dight

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (obsolete) Finely.

   Synonym: dightly

From Middle English dight, past participle of dighten.

• IPA^(key): /diːt/

dight

1. adorned, dressed

• dieeght

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 35