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bedight, v. arch.|bɪˈdaɪt|
pa. tense bedight. pa. pple. bedight, -ed.
[f. be- + dight.]
trans. To equip, furnish, apparel, array, bedeck. (Now only poetical.)
c1400in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 23 Wat is he þis þat comet so briht Wit blodi cloþes al be-diht? 1559Mirr. Mag. 270 (R.) A troope of men..in armes bedight. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas (1608) 462 A garland..The royal bridegrooms radiant brows bedights. 1621Quarles Esther (1717) 8 Jonah straight arose, himself bedight With fit accoutrements for hasty flight. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. (1851) 269 Whose outward garment hath bin injur'd and ill bedighted. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 129 She not only bedights them with many springs. 1856Longfellow Elected Knt. viii, Three modest maidens have me bedight.
Hence bedight ppl. a.
a1440Sire Degrev. 144 Lothlych by-dyght. 1598Yong Diana 428 Thy fieldes bedight with Daffodillies. a1849Poe Eldorado i, Gaily bedight, a gallant knight. 1863C. M. Smith Dead Lock 296 Lilian..With gems and gold bedight. |