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Definition of Dighted
1. Adjective. Dressed or adorned (as for battle).
Definition of Dighted
1. Verb. (archaic) (past of dight) (to prepare and array.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dighted
1. dight [v] - See also: dight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dighted
Literary usage of Dighted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchant and Craft Guilds: A History of the Aberdeen Incorporated Trades by Ebenezer Bain (1887)
"ANENT "dighted" DEALS. 16th April, 1698.—The said day by voyce of court, ...
that no frieman of the wright traid, work ony deals dighted on both syds and ..."
2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"The cleanest corn that e'er was dight May hae some pyles o' caff in ; Add.
to Unco Guid. Mott. dighted [wiped]. I dighted ay her een sae blue, . ..."
3. Hudibras by Samuel Butler, Henry George Bohn (1859)
"... and said to those about her, " This man will come to me next court-day in his
night-cap." ' Terst, or erst, means first. ' dighted, from the Anglo-Saxon ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1877)
"... dighted up afore th' steward comes, or he '11 happen say ... Thy han's is
strange an' dighted up wi' dirt. ..."
5. Churchwardens' Accounts of Pittington and Other Parishes in the Diocese of by James Barmby (1888)
"The leads of the church roof are also 'dighted' from time to time. The ' harness '
was the armour for military service which parishes had to maintain. ..."
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