benighted

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.

   “The Moon (that roves like thee) ſhou'd fail, / The Stars benighted prove, / The Sun (that burns like me) ſhou'd ceaſe / To ſhine, ere thou to love?”

2. sıfat Plunged into darkness.

   “Rob the Spheare of lines vnited, / Make a ſuddaine voide in nature: / Force the day to be benighted, / Reaue the cauſe of time and creature.”

3. sıfat Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.

   “Where art thou, poor benighted Traveller! / The Stars will light thee; tho' the Moon ſhould fail. / Where art Thou, more benighted! more aſtray! / In Ways immoral? The Stars call thee back; / And, if obey'd their Counſel, ſet thee right.”

4. sıfat Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.

   “[O]thers, held very good men, are at a dead ſtand, not knovving vvhat to doe or ſay; and are therefore called Seekers, looking for nevv Nuntio's from Chriſt, to aſſoil theſe benighted queſtions, and to give nevv Orders for nevv Churches.”

5. fiil simple past and past participle of benight