bedight
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
/bɪˈdaɪt/
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/bɪˈdaɪt/ · [bɪˈdʌɪt]
Definition of bedight
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (archaic)To equip or bedeck.
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verb
- (archaic)To equip or bedeck.
adj
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(archaic)That has been equipped or bedecked.
“Then she gave unto him a dress so new, With gold and pearls bedight; Every seam on the dress it was With precious stones all bright.”
“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 of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.”
“She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the clown, so philosophically funny, despite the cruel ringmaster's whip cuts.”
“[…] [F]rom every Southern hill, / And mount and stream and vale bedight […]”
“Who comes through Michan’s land, bedight in sable armour? O’Bloom, the son of Rory: it is he.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English bedighten, bidihten; equivalent to be- + dight.
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