dightとは

発音

• (米国発音, 英国発音) IPA^(key): /daɪt/
• 韻: -aɪt

動詞

dight (三人称単数 現在形 dights, 現在分詞 dighting, 過去形および過去分詞形 dight または dighted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, handle.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple's Prologue.

     Ne telleth nevere no man in youre lyf

     How that another man hath dight his wyf;

3. (obsolete, transitive) To dispose, put (in a given state または condition).
4. (obsolete, transitive) To compose, make.
   • 14^thc., Anonymous, The Chester Mystery Plays, Noah's Flood,:

     Japhet's Wife: And I will gather chippes here / To make a fyer for you in feare, / And for to dighte your dinnere / Agayne you come in.

5. (archaic, transitive) To furnish, equip.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xv, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:

     And whan balyn was wepenles he ranne in to a chamber for to seke somme wepen / and soo fro chamber to chamber / and no wepen he coude fynde / and alweyes kynge Pellam after hym / And at the last he entryd in to a chambyr that was merueillously wel dyȝte and rychely

6. (archaic, transitive) To dress, array; to adorn.
   • 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro:

     Right against the eastern gate, / Where the great sun begins his state, / Robed in flames, and amber light, / The clouds in thousand liveries dight […].

7. (archaic, transitive) To make ready, prepare.

派生語

• dighter
• adight
• bedight
• benedight
• misdight
• maledight
• overdight