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Webster 1913 Edition
Misdight
Mis-dight′
,Adj.
Arrayed, prepared, or furnished, unsuitably.
[Archaic]
Bp. Hall.
Definition 2024
misdight
misdight
English
Verb
misdight (third-person singular simple present misdights, present participle misdighting, simple past and past participle misdight)
- (obsolete) To mistreat, treat badly; to dress or furnish poorly. [13th-17th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.7:
- Her heart gan grudge for very deepe despight / Of so unmanly maske in misery misdight.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.7:
Adjective
misdight (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Arrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably.
- Bishop Joseph Hall
- Despised nature suit them once aright, / Their body to their coat, both now misdight. / Their body to their clothes might shapen be, / That nill their clothes shape to their bodie.
- Bishop Joseph Hall