benight ( gh silent)

t. [Eng. prefix be, and night.] I. Literally : 1. To cover with night, to involve or shroud in darkne ; to obscure. "Those bright stars that did adorn our hemisphere, as those dark shades that did benight it, vanish." Boyle . "A storm begins, the raging waves run high, The clouds look heavy, and benight the sky." Garth. 2. To overtake with night. (Not much used except in the pa. par. & particip. adj.) yea, also, now I am like to be benighted , for the day is almost spent."-Bunyan: P. P., pt. i. II. Fig .: To debar from intellectual, moral, or spiritual light. "But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon." Milton : Comus. bě-night-ed ( gh silent), pa, par. & a. [BENIGHT, I. 2.]