v. arch. Pa. t. bedight. Pa. pple. bedight, -ed. [f. BE- + DIGHT.] trans. To equip, furnish, apparel, array, bedeck. (Now only poetical.)
c. 1400. in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866), 23. Wat is he þis þat comet so briht Wit blodi cloþes al be-diht?
1559. Mirr. Mag., 270 (R.). A troope of men … in armes bedight.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas (1608), 462. A garland … The royal bridegrooms radiant brows bedights.
1621. Quarles, Esther (1717), 8. Jonah straight arose, himself bedight With fit accoutrements for hasty flight.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect., Wks. (1851), 269. Whose outward garment hath bin injur’d and ill bedighted.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 129. She not only bedights them with many springs.
1856. Longf., Elected Knt., viii. Three modest maidens have me bedight.
Hence Bedight ppl. a.
a. 1440. Sire Degrev., 144. Lothlych by-dyght.
1598. Yong, Diana, 428. Thy fieldes bedight with Daffodillies.
a. 1849. Poe, Eldorado, i. Gaily bedight, a gallant knight.
1863. C. M. Smith, Dead Lock, 296. Lilian … With gems and gold bedight.
