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Behight
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What's The Definition Of Behight?Synonyms | Synonyms for Behight: Related Terms | Find terms related to Behight: See Also | Behight In Webster's Dictionary \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.
Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. --Surrey.
2. To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
The keys are to thy hand behight. --Spenser.
3. To adjudge; to assign by authority.
The second was to Triamond behight. --Spenser.
4. To mean, or intend.
More than heart behighteth. --Mir. for
Mag.
5. To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
All the lookers-on him dead behight. --Spenser.
6. To call; to name; to address.
Whom . . . he knew and thus behight. --Spenser.
7. To command; to order.
He behight those gates to be unbarred. --Spenser.
\Be*hight"\, n. A vow; a promise. [Obs.] --Surrey. |
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