• (v.) To mean, or intend. • (v.) To adjudge; to assign by authority. • (v.) To command; to order. • (v.) To call; to name; to address. • (imp.) of Behight • (v.) To promise; to vow. • (p. p.) of Behight • (v.) To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. • (v.) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be....
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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 ...
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Be·hight' noun A vow; a promise. [ Obsolete]
Surrey. Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/32
Be·hight' transitive verb [
imperfect Behight ;
past participle Behight ,
Behoten .] [ Middle English
bihaten , Anglo-Saxon
behātan to vow, promise; prefix
be- +
hātan to call, command....
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