- Behight
- Behight Be*hight", v. t. [imp. {Behight}; p. p. {Behight},
{Behoten}.] [OE. bihaten, AS. beh[=a]tan to vow, promise;
pref. be- + h[=a]tan to call, command. See {Hight}, v.] [Obs.
in all its senses.]
1. To promise; to vow.
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Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. --Surrey. [1913 Webster]
2. To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. [1913 Webster]
The keys are to thy hand behight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
3. To adjudge; to assign by authority. [1913 Webster]
The second was to Triamond behight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
4. To mean, or intend. [1913 Webster]
More than heart behighteth. --Mir. for Mag. [1913 Webster]
5. To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. [1913 Webster]
All the lookers-on him dead behight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
6. To call; to name; to address. [1913 Webster]
Whom . . . he knew and thus behight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
7. To command; to order. [1913 Webster]
He behight those gates to be unbarred. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
