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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.
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              Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. --Surrey.
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     2. To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
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              The keys are to thy hand behight.     --Spenser.
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     3. To adjudge; to assign by authority.
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              The second was to Triamond behight.   --Spenser.
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     4. To mean, or intend.
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              More than heart behighteth.           --Mir. for
                                                    Mag.
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     5. To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
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              All the lookers-on him dead behight.  --Spenser.
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     6. To call; to name; to address.
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              Whom . . . he knew and thus behight.  --Spenser.
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     7. To command; to order.
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              He behight those gates to be unbarred. --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Behight \Be*hight"\, n.
     A vow; a promise. [Obs.] --Surrey.
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