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Lighted   /lˈaɪtəd/  /lˈaɪtɪd/   Listen
adjective
lighted  adj.  
1.
Set afire or burning.
Synonyms: ignited, enkindled, kindled, lit.
2.
Illuminated by artificial light; as, lighted by a high-powered searchligh.
Synonyms: illuminated, lit, well-lighted.


verb
Light  v. t.  (past & past part. lit or lighted; pres. part. lighting)  
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. "If a thousand candles be all lighted from one." "And the largest lamp is lit." "Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this."
2.
To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to spread over with light; often with up. "Ah, hopeless, lasting flames! like those that burn To light the dead." "One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds." "The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky."
3.
To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light. "His bishops lead him forth, and light him on."
To light a fire, to kindle the material of a fire.


Light  v. t.  (past & past part. lighted or lit; pres. part. lighting)  To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off. (Obs.) "From his head the heavy burgonet did light."


Light  v. i.  (past & past part. lit or lighted; pres. part. lighting)  
1.
To become ignited; to take fire; as, the match will not light.
2.
To be illuminated; to receive light; to brighten; with up; as, the room light up very well.


Light  v. i.  (past & past part. lighted or lit; pres. part. lighting)  
1.
To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to alight; with from, off, on, upon, at, in. "When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel." "Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn."
2.
To feel light; to be made happy. (Obs.) "It made all their hearts to light."
3.
To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect. "(The bee) lights on that, and this, and tasteth all." "On the tree tops a crested peacock lit."
4.
To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; with on or upon. "On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all corruption, all the blame lights due."
5.
To come by chance; to happen; with on or upon; formerly with into. "The several degrees of vision, which the assistance of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us to conceive." "They shall light into atheistical company." "And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with the rest."





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"Lighted" Quotes from Famous Books



... great assembly the wedding took place. The same priest who had heard the confession ministered for the marriage. He handed to each of the couple a lighted candle decorated with flowers. The chanting of an invisible choir resounded richly through the church, and when the liturgy was finished, the solemn benediction was read over the bridal pair. It was a great event in ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VIII • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... signal for the pistol-shots which were furiously exchanged on every side, and which lighted up this tumultuous and sombre scene. The clashing of swords and trampling of horses did not prevent the cries from being heard on one side: "Down with the minister! Long live the King! Long live Monsieur and Monsieur le Grand! ...
— Cinq Mars, Complete • Alfred de Vigny
... open the door with his nose. He slunk in, so silently that he was not heard. The cabin was lighted. In a bed lay a white-faced, hollow-cheeked man—awake. On a low stool at his side sat a woman. The light of the lamp hanging from above warmed with gold fires the thick and radiant mass of her hair. She was leaning over the sick man. One slim, white hand was stroking his ...
— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood
... taking his leave, his hostess, whose husband had been killed the year before, told him that she was afraid to be left alone, and begged him to remain with her, an invitation which he accepted. Towards morning, the barking of his dog roused him; when, going out, he saw the night lighted up by the blaze of burning houses, and heard the usual firing and screeching of an Iroquois attack. He went back to his frightened companion, who also had a gun. Placing himself at a corner of the house, he told her to stand behind him. A ...
— Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV • Francis Parkman
... night he heard the house-bell, and meeting Vernon in the hall, invited him to enter the laboratory and tell him Dr. Corney's last. Vernon was brief, Corney had not let fly a single anecdote, he said, and lighted ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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