Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To dress; adorn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Finely; well.
- To set in order; arrange; dispose.
- Reflexively, to set or address.
- To put into a certain condition or position.
- To dispose of; treat.
- To prepare; make ready.
- To prepare or make ready by dressing or cooking.
- To prepare or make ready by equipping or arraying; dress; equip; array; deck; adorn.
- To put into the proper or any desired condition by removing obstructions or inequalities; dress; clean.
- By sifting or winnowing: as, to
dight corn. [In sense 6, Scotch (pronounced dicht and sometimes spelleddicht ) and North. Eng.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Archaic To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn.
- transitive verb obsolete To have sexual intercourse with.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
deal with,handle . - verb obsolete, transitive To have
sexual intercourse with. - verb obsolete, transitive To
dispose ,put (in a given state or condition). - verb obsolete, transitive To
compose ,make . - verb archaic, transitive To
furnish ,equip . - verb archaic, transitive To
dress ,array ; toadorn . - verb archaic, transitive To make ready,
prepare .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The latest entry Sommer prowde with Daffadillies dight, Posted Saturday, April 30, 2005—there are no permalinks focuses on the word "dight," which I knew as an archaic word for 'adorn'; I probably once knew, but had forgotten, that it was from Latin dictāre 'to dictate, order.'
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I wonder which sense of "dight" gave rise to its use in a sexual context: "adorn, decorate" or "order, dictate."
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Question about the etymology- although 'dight' surely does look derived from 'dictare', can't it also be some variant of 'decked'?
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When I read the word "dight," my mind went immediately back to Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, l. 146, "in Omer, or in Dares, or in Dyte."
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Indeed, Moulsworth vows to transmute the faulty model provided by the Biblical Martha, the archetypal busy housewife: Moulsworth plans to "dight" (or make ready) her "Inward house" (l. 19) and thus prepare an appropriate habitation for Christ.
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993
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Let's not lose dight of the main objective: a Democrat in the White House.
SurveyUSA: Clinton Ahead By 16 Points In Indiana Primary 2009
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Father, thou hearest thy children's lamentation; say, shall I e'er, as warrior dight, avenge thy slaughter?
The Suppliants 2008
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So they arrayed them in gold and many a fair thing, and she went with her damsels till they came to the hall of Brynhild, and that hall was dight with gold, and stood on a high hill; and whenas their goings were seen, it was told Brynhild, that a company of women drove toward the burg in gilded waggons.
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I give thee gold and all kinds of good things to take to thee after thy father, dear bought rings and bed-gear of the maids of the Huns, the most courteous and well dight of all women; and thus is thy husband atoned for: and thereafter shalt thou be given to
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Father, thou hearest thy children's lamentation; say, shall I e'er, as warrior dight, avenge thy slaughter?
The Suppliants 2008
hernesheir commented on the word dight
(v): to equip, prepare; to adorn.
January 15, 2009
yarb commented on the word dight
Gaily bedight, a gallant knight...
January 15, 2009
bilby commented on the word dight
To eat certain foods and not others.
November 15, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word dight
Bilby! Here you are!
November 15, 2009
bilby commented on the word dight
I've been on a dight. Lost my appetite for words, word-adding and word-commenting :-(
November 15, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word dight
Too bad. Want to talk about it? If you're on a dight you can still have some of these.
November 15, 2009
mollusque commented on the word dight
If those don't fill you up, try these.
November 15, 2009
reesetee commented on the word dight
Heehee!
November 16, 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word dight
JM dutifully dights daily.
February 4, 2011
qms commented on the word dight
To deck the hall with Christmas light
Was all I meant that fateful night.
But isn't it good
You misunderstood
What I intended by "Let us dight!"
June 8, 2014