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Definition of Bedight
1. Verb. Decorate. "They bedight the halls with holly"; "Deck the halls with holly"
Generic synonyms: Adorn, Beautify, Decorate, Embellish, Grace, Ornament
Specialized synonyms: Plume
Definition of Bedight
1. v. t. To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn.
Definition of Bedight
1. Verb. (archaic) to equip or bedeck ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bedight
1. to bedeck [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: bedeck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedight
Literary usage of Bedight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treasury of American Sacred Song: With Notes Explanatory and Biographical by William Garrett Horder (1896)
"... UNDER THE SNOWS UNDER the drifted snows, with weeping and holy rite, For a
little maid's repose lies the lonely bed bedight. Cold is the cradle-cover ..."
2. Lyric Forms from France: Their History and Their Use by Helen Louise Cohen (1922)
"The boy shot arrows at a tree bedight With red-winged songsters warbling sweet
and gay Amid the leaves and blossoms blooming bright, He seemed an aimless, ..."
3. Romance, Vision and Satire: English Alliterative Poems of the Fourteenth Century by Jessie Laidlay Weston (1912)
"19 bedight, and broidered was every seam Of the sleeves, of the sides of each
... and how spotless still Was the precious pearl, on her robe bedight. ..."
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