bedight
/bɪˈdaɪt/
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bedight verb: to equip or bedeck.
Verb
bedight (third-person singular simple present bedights, present participle bedighting, simple past and past participle bedight or bedighted)
Adjective
bedight (comparative more bedight, superlative most bedight)
- 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.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 168 - 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.1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
- Then she gave unto him a dress so new,
Examples of bedight in a sentence
- […] [F]rom every Southern hill, / And mount and stream and vale bedight […]1908, James Ryder Randall, “John W. Morton”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md.; New York: John Murphy Company, page...
- Who comes through Michan’s land, bedight in sable armour?1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- There rose a fabled horde of mounted lancers and archers bearing shields bedight with bits of broken mirrorglass that cast a thousand unpieced suns against the eyes of their enemies.1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian:
Forms of bedight
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | bedights |
| present participle | bedighting |
| past participle | bedight |
| past | bedight |
| past participle | bedighted |
| past | bedighted |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more bedight |
| superlative | most bedight |
Origin of bedight
From Middle English bedighten, bidihten; equivalent to be- + dight.
Words that rhyme with bedight
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- knight
- slight
- Dwight
- height
- sight
- night
- sprite
- fight
- parasite
- site
- alight
- smite
- all right
- blight
- might
- mite
- skite
- cite
- indite
- lite
- outright
- plight
- bight
- excite
- ignite
- invite
- overnight
- uptight
- wight
- accite
- alright
- benight
- bewrite
- blite
- copyright
- despite
- dight
- disunite
- finite
- flite
- hight
- incite
- recite
- relight
- rewrite
- sleight
- spite
- spright
Questions about bedight
- What does bedight mean?
- Bedight means to equip or bedeck.
- How do you use bedight in a sentence?
- […] [F]rom every Southern hill, / And mount and stream and vale bedight […]
- What part of speech is bedight?
- Bedight can be a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bedight?
- Bedight is pronounced /bɪˈdaɪt/.
- What is the past tense of bedight?
- The past tense of bedight is bedight.
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