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Webster 1913 Edition
Behight
Be-hight′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp.
Behight
; p. p.
Behight
, Behoten
.] [Obs. in all its senses.]
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.
Be-hight′
,Noun.
A vow; a promise.
[Obs.]
Surrey.
Webster 1828 Edition
Behight
BEHI'GHT
,Verb.
T.
To promise; to entrust; to call, or name; to command; to adjudge; to address; to inform; to mean; to reckon. The orthography is corrupt; it should be behite.