dightとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音, 英国発音) IPA: /daɪt/
• (Canada) IPA: [dʌɪt]
• 韻: -aɪt

形容詞

dight (comparative dighter, superlative dightest)

1. (rare, archaic) Adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.
   • 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 […].

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114:

     […] the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     […] nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she; for she is prime in comeliness and seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her cheek is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite.

同意語

• (to furnish): apparel, fit out, kit out
• (to dress, array, adorn): clothe, don, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe

動詞

dight (third-person singular simple present dights, present participle dighting, simple past and past participle dight or dighted)(transitive)

1. (Can we verify this sense?) (obsolete) To deal with; to handle.
2. (archaic) To adorn, decorate or furnish; to dress, array, or deck out.
   • 1898, Florence G. Attenborough, "An Opium Dream"‎:

     […] It sways upon a billow foam-befrilled, / Dighted with precious gems […]

3. (Can we verify this sense?) (archaic) To make ready; to prepare.

派生語

副詞

dight

1. (Can we verify this sense?) (obsolete) Finely.

   Synonym: dightly