lighted
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Light \Light\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lighted} (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or
{Lit} (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lighting}.] [AS. l[=y]htan,
l[imac]htan, to shine. [root]122. See {Light}, n.]
1. To set fire to; to cause to burn; to set burning; to
ignite; to kindle; as, to light a candle or lamp; to light
the gas; -- sometimes with up.
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If a thousand candles be all lighted from one.
--Hakewill.
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And the largest lamp is lit. --Macaulay.
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Absence might cure it, or a second mistress
Light up another flame, and put out this. --Addison.
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2. To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to
spread over with light; -- often with up.
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Ah, hopeless, lasting flames! like those that burn
To light the dead. --Pope.
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One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as
brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I
suppose, fifty pounds. --F. Harrison.
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The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply
His absent beams, has lighted up the sky. --Dryden.
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3. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by
means of a light.
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His bishops lead him forth, and light him on.
--Landor.
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{To light a fire}, to kindle the material of a fire.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Light \Light\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lighted} (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or
{Lit} (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lighting}.] [AS. l[imac]htan
to alight orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden,
to make less heavy, fr. l[imac]ht light. See {Light} not
heavy, and cf. {Alight}, {Lighten} to make light.]
1. To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to
alight; -- with from, off, on, upon, at, in.
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When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
--Gen. xxiv.
64.
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Slowly rode across a withered heath,
And lighted at a ruined inn. --Tennyson.
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2. To feel light; to be made happy. [Obs.]
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It made all their hearts to light. --Chaucer.
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3. To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a
bird or insect.
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[The bee] lights on that, and this, and tasteth all.
--Sir. J.
Davies.
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On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. --Tennyson.
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4. To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or
upon.
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On me, me only, as the source and spring
Of all corruption, all the blame lights due.
--Milton.
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5. To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly
with into.
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The several degrees of vision, which the assistance
of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us
to conceive. --Locke.
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They shall light into atheistical company. --South.
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And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth,
And Lilia with the rest. --Tennyson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lighted \lighted\ adj.
1. set afire or burning.
Syn: ignited, enkindled, kindled, lit.
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2. Illuminated by artificial light; as, lighted by a
high-powered searchligh.
Syn: illuminated, lit, well-lighted.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "lighted":
ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, alight, bathed with light,
bespangled, blazing, brightened, candlelit, enlightened, fiery,
firelit, flaming, flaring, gaslit, ignited, illuminated,
in a blaze, irradiate, irradiated, lamplit, lanternlit, lightened,
lit, lit up, luminous, moonlit, spangled, star-spangled,
star-studded, starlit, studded, sunlit, tinseled
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