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Misdight

Mis-dight′

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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)

  1. (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.

Adjective

misdight (not comparable)

  1. (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.