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ˈnighted, ppl. a.
[f. night v. + -ed1.]
1. Made dark or black as night. rare.
1604Shakes. Ham. i. ii. (Q. 2) 68 Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted [1623 nightly] colour off. 1605― Lear iv. v. 13 Edmund, I thinke, is gone In pitty of his misery, to dispatch His nighted life. [1882Macm. Mag. XLVI. 334/2 To show that Romeo ever had many moments in which he could naturally throw his nighted colour off.]
†b. Pertaining to the night. Obs. rare—1.
1605Drayton Man in the Moone 37 Now the goodly Moone Was in the Full, and at her Nighted Noone.
2. Overtaken by night, benighted. Also fig.
1640H. Glapthorne Wallenstein iii. iii. Wks. 1874 II. 49 Like those fire drakes, Mis-guiding nighted travellers. 1765[E. Thompson] Meretriciad 39 So have I seen a brilliant Star retire, And leave the nighted lover in the mire. 1819Scott Lady of L. ii. xxxii, Upon the nighted pilgrim's way. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 67 His reeling ship,..him⁓self e'en steered her in the nighted waves. |