Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To dress or array.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To array; equip; dress; trick out; bedeck; invest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Archaic To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic to
equip orbedeck
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb decorate
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Gaily bedight,/ A gallant knight/ In sunshine and in shadow, . . .
Archive 2010-01-10 Bill Crider 2010
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Gaily bedight,/ A gallant knight/ In sunshine and ...
Archive 2010-01-10 Bill Crider 2010
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A brightest favour and a mouth bedight with wondrous smiles;
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Now it chanced that one day, as he shook the handkerchief101 and the troops withdrew to their places that he betook himself to the sitting-chamber, where he sat till the day departed and the night advanced with murks bedight.
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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.
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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.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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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.
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An unimaginable tapestry bedight with incredible broidery, the
The Metal Monster 2004
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The hall was bedight with evergreen boughs, weavings, burnished metal, Roman glass.
Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983
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Now will die hard helmet, bedight with gold, be deprived of its adornments; they sleep who should burnish the battle-masks.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964
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