Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To light up; illuminate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To illuminate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, rare, dialectal To
light up ;illuminate . - verb intransitive, rare, dialectal To become lit up;
shine up;dawn .
Etymologies
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From Middle English bilihten ("to illuminate"), equivalent to be- + light.
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Examples
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Lord, for the sacrifice would not belight nor burn clear in the light of
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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Female nature could not suppress the exclamations of belight that succeeded.
Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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To do that in Address Book, I'd need to create a separate contact for Laurence Family.www. belight.com) uses my Address Book data (it also imports contacts from other software), and offers a simple pop-up menu to configure the label; choosing the Family template switches the name to "The Laurence Family" without affecting the Address Book entry.
The Seattle Times 2009
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