a. Obs. [f. LIGHT sb. or a.1 + -Y.]
1. Full of light, bright, shining.
1382. Wyclif, Matt. xvii. 5. Loo! a liȝty cloude shadewid hem. Ibid., Luke xi. 34. If thin yȝe schal be symple, al thi body schal be liȝtful [v.r. liȝti; 1388 liȝti].
2. Enlightened, well-informed.
1562. Turner, Bathes, 1. In this our lightye and learned tyme.
