litten

Pseudo-archaic formation from lit +‎ -en.

• Rhymes: -ɪtən

litten

1. (archaic) past participle of light
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 7:

     They’ve been inside the earth, too—there are openings which human beings know nothing of—some of them in these very Vermont hills—and great worlds of unknown life down there; blue-litten K’n-yan, red-litten Yoth, and black, lightless N’kai.

• lettin'

litten

1. First-person plural preterite of leiden.
2. Third-person plural preterite of leiden.
3. First-person plural subjunctive II of leiden.
4. Third-person plural subjunctive II of leiden.