Be‐night″ (bē̍‐nīt″), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Benighted; p. pr. & vb. n.Benighting.] 1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
The clouds benight the sky.
Garth.
2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
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.