Question about the etymology- although 'dight' surely does look derived from 'dictare', can't it also be some variant of 'decked'?.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: DIGHT.] Reference

When I read the word "dight," my mind went immediately back to Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, l. 146, "in Omer, or in Dares, or in Dyte.".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: DIGHT.] Reference

Youngling and gold-dight to the glad son of Froda.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

Some prancke their ruffes; and others trimly dight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

Look thy mill go right, with its four sails dight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference

In seates of sure abode, where temples we may dight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8)] Reference

Then King Arthur blew the prise and dight the hart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference

Sheathed in resplendent arms, or loosely dight 4010.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference

And, O mine eyes, with crowns of tears be dight. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

I coffed a pocket-napkin to dight his little nosiken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference

No lesser a whit were the wealth-goods they dight him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

Wide-gaping all gold-dight; within slept the guest; 1800.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

And patience, Sprite! with whatso ills he dight to thee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

She answered us in pleasant way with double meaning dight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

When she beheld me right and left with all of beauty dight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

But through sentence and decree that to every man are dight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

The clouds in thousand liveries dight; and in 'Il Penseroso'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference

Where thou art not, though dight it be with joyance and delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

From the moment she saw herself in the glass her doom was dight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

She nodded yeasay, and began by seeming to dight the craft for return.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

And thrice this Left with pledged ringe was dight + three husbands me, & I haue them enioyde.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem] Reference

And in that temple ben 4 entrees; and the zates ben of cypresse, wel made and curiousely dight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

Then the army of Irak dight itself for fight and advanced into the plain and place of cut and foin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Afresh, as before, for the famed-in-battle, for the band of the hall, was a banquet dight nobly anew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere] Reference

Father, thou hearest thy children's lamentation; say, shall I e'er, as warrior dight, avenge thy slaughter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Suppliants] Reference

Their bowes are very short, like Turkie bowes outright, Of sinowes made with birchen barke, in cunning maner dight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

And there on the dais was a table dight with dainty meats and drinks, and the lady bade us thereto, and we sat to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

It is composed of a cap of purple velvet, enclosed by hoops of silver, richly dight with gems, in the form shown in our.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference

The windows, which are "richly dight" with tracery, are of cast-iron, moulded on both sides, and grooved to receive the glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828] Reference

And they dight them to go, they three together, with but one squire and a sergeant, who were both of them keen trackers and fell woodsmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference