plighted
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From plight (“plait, fold”) + -ed.
Adjective
[edit]plighted (comparative more plighted, superlative most plighted)
- (obsolete) Having plights; pleated; plated; folded.
- 1588, A Collection in English, of the Statutes now in force, […] [1], London: […] Deputies of Chriſtopher Barker:
- Clothes ſhall not bee tacked oꝛ plighted tyll the Auneger hath ſearched them.
- 1708, Richard Newcourt, Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London, volume 1, London: […] Benj. Motte, page 281:
- They were call'd Blackfriers from their black Weed or Garmeat, which conſiſts in a white Caſſock and a Patience, over which they wear a Hood all of the ſame Colour: But when they go abroad, they put over their white Cloths a black plighted Cloak with a black Hood.
Further reading
[edit]- “plighted, adj2.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]plighted
- simple past and past participle of plight