benight

verb3

1. •
   (no longer used) To darken; to shroud or obscure.

   • The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning; / Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air. — 1922
2. •
   (no longer used) To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.

   • Can we whose souls are lighted With Wisdom from on high, Can we to men benighted The lamp of life deny? — 1819
3. •
   (no longer used) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.

   • [H]e struck off the common road, to take the benefit of a nearer cut; and finding himself benighted near a village, took up his lodging at the first inn to which his horse directed him. — 1751