Definition of "bedight" [be•dight]

• Archaic To dress or array. (verb-transitive)

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• "Gaily bedight,/ A gallant knight/ In sunshine and ..."
• "Gaily bedight,/ A gallant knight/ In sunshine and in shadow, . . ."
• "Now it chanced that one day, as he shook the handkerchief101 and the troops withdrew to their places that he betook himself to the sitting-chamber, where he sat till the day departed and the night advanced with murks bedight."