lighted down

Verb

light down (third-person singular simple present lights down, present participle lighting down, simple past and past participle lighted down)

1. (archaic) To dismount; to get off.
2. (archaic) To cause to fall or descend; to lower.
   • "How I cursed my selfishness and the folly that had kept me lingering by Ayesha's side while my dear boy lay dying! Alas and alas! how easily the best of us are lighted down to evil by the gleam of a woman's eyes! What a wicked wretch was I!"1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC