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Definition of Behight
1. v. t. To promise; to vow.
2. n. A vow; a promise.
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)
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