Pronunciations (3)
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/bɪˈdaɪt/
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[bɪˈdʌɪt]
Pronunciation notes
- Canada
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bɪˈdaɪt
Verb
To equip or bedeck.
Usage- Archaic
Adjective
That has been equipped or bedecked.
Usage- Archaic
- often
- Poetic
- postpositional
- Examples
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Then she gave unto him a dress so new, With gold and pearls bedight; Every seam on the dress it was With precious stones all bright.
More examples (2)
In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered – flushed, but smiling proudly – with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.
She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the clown, so philosophically funny, despite the cruel ringmaster's whip cuts.
[…] [F]rom every Southern hill, / And mount and stream and vale bedight […]
More examples (2)
Who comes through Michan’s land, bedight in sable armour? O’Bloom, the son of Rory: it is he.
There rose a fabled horde of mounted lancers and archers bearing shields bedight with bits of broken mirrorglass that cast a thousand unpieced suns against the eyes of their enemies.
Verb
decorate
- Examples
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deck the halls with holly