Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BE-NIGHT', 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; as, a benighted traveler.
3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light; as, benighted nations, or heathen.