verbWord forms: -dights, -dighting, -dight or -dighted
1. (transitive)
to array or adorn
adjective
2. (past participle of the verb)
adorned or bedecked
Word origin
C14: from dight
bedight in American English
(biˈdaɪt)
adjective
Archaic
bedecked; arrayed
Word origin
pp. of obs. bedight < ME bidighten, to equip, deck out < bi-, be- + dighten, to prepare, set in order < OE dihtan, to arrange, compose, write < L dictare: see dictate