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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OE.

biheste

promise, command, AS.

behǣs

promise; pref.

be-

hǣs

command. See

That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.

To do his master’s high

behest

Sir W. Scott.

A vow; a promise.

[Obs.]

The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the

behest

that I have made.

Paston.

Verb.

To vow.

[Obs.]

Paston.

Noun.

Command; precept; mandate.[Antiquated, except in poetry.]