2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Behight \Be*hight"\, n. A vow; a promise. [Obs.] --Surrey. [1913 Webster]
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