Be*night" (?), 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.
[Archaic]
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.
© Webster 1913.