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Definition of bedight in English: bedightadjectivebɪˈdʌɪtbəˈdīt archaic Adorned. a Christmas pudding bedight with holly Example sentencesExamples - In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered, flushed, but smiling proudly; with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.
- This very mare I rode - my bay, best of my horses, had laid upon her back a crimson cloth bedight with patterns worked in blue.
- He would wear no clothe but of scarlet and fur, and all his weapons were bedight with gold.
Origin Late Middle English: past participle of archaic bedight 'equip, array' (see be-, dight). Rhymes affright, alight, alright, aright, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, excite, fight, flight, fright, goodnight, height, ignite, impolite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, slight, smite, Snow-white, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, unite, uptight, white, wight, wright, write Definition of bedight in US English: bedightadjectivebəˈdīt archaic Adorned. a Christmas pudding bedight with holly Example sentencesExamples - He would wear no clothe but of scarlet and fur, and all his weapons were bedight with gold.
- In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered, flushed, but smiling proudly; with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.
- This very mare I rode - my bay, best of my horses, had laid upon her back a crimson cloth bedight with patterns worked in blue.
Origin Late Middle English: past participle of archaic bedight ‘equip, array’ (see be-, dight). |