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Definition of Behight
1. v. t. To promise; to vow.
2. n. A vow; a promise.
Definition of Behight
1. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To vow, promise (someone). ¹
2. Verb. (dialectal Northern England) To be designated. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Behight
1. to vow [v BEHOTE, BEHIGHTING, BEHIGHTS] - See also: vow
Medical Definition of Behight
1. 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) Origin: OE. Bihaten, AS. Behatan to vow, promise; pref. Be- + hatan to call, command. See Hight. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Behight
Literary usage of Behight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary, of Obsolete and Uncommon Words by William Toone (1834)
"Did'st thou behight me, born of English blood. IBID. Chaucer uses it in the sense
of to ... In right ill array She was, with storm and heat, I you behight. ..."
2. A Comparative Glossary of the Gothic Language with Especial Reference to by Gerhard Hubert Balg (1889)
"The Mdn. E. hight (behight) is, prop., a prêt, form, ie the MdL E. hight, ...
AS wrong, behight being entitled to its spelling, as well as knight, right, ..."
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