What does light down mean?

light down

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.22 in modern English

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verb

To dismount; to get off.

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verb

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""How I cursed my selfishness and the folly that had kept me lingering by Ayesha's side while my dear boy lay dying! Alas and alas! how easily the best of us are lighted down to evil by the gleam of a woman's eyes! What a wicked wretch was I!""

lights down (present, singular) lighting down (participle, present) lighted down (participle, past) lighted down (past)

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