overdight

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ dight.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -aɪt

Adjective

overdight (comparative more overdight, superlative most overdight)

  1. (obsolete) Adorned; decked over; overspread; covered over.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie:
      Yet farre more faire be those bright Cherubins / Which all with golden wings are overdight
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