Be-night', v. t.

(-nĭt'), v. t. [be and night.] 1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night. The clouds benight the sky. Garth. 2. To overtake with night. Some virgin, sure, benighted in these woods. Milton. 3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny? Heber.