dight
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dight
- /daɪt/ UK, US
- [dʌɪt] Canada
Rhymes with -aɪt
Where it comes from
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.
adjective dighter · dightest
- Adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out. Right against the eastern gate, / Where the great sun begins his state, / Robed in flames, and amber light, / The clouds in thousand liveries dight[…].
verb dights · dighting · dight · dighted
- To deal with; to handle.
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To adorn, decorate or furnish; to dress, array, or deck out.
Come, Colin, dight your cheeks and baniſh care
Similar: fit out, kit out, clothe, don, put on, accouter, address, apparel, array, attire, beclothe, dight
- To make ready; to prepare Do thou dight thee a twenty-banked ship right good
adverb
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suitably, appropriately, properly
Similar: dightly
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