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Behight   Listen
verb
Behight  v. t.  (past behight; past part. behight, behoten)  (Obs. in all its senses.)
1.
To promise; to vow. "Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve."
2.
To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. "The keys are to thy hand behight."
3.
To adjudge; to assign by authority. "The second was to Triamond behight."
4.
To mean, or intend. "More than heart behighteth."
5.
To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. "All the lookers-on him dead behight."
6.
To call; to name; to address. "Whom... he knew and thus behight."
7.
To command; to order. "He behight those gates to be unbarred."





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"Behight" Quotes from Famous Books



... knighthood Bain, bath, Barbican, gate-tower, Barget, little ship, Battle, division of an army, Bawdy, dirty, Beams, trumpets, Be-closed, enclosed, Become, pp., befallen, gone to, Bedashed, splashed, Behests, promises, Behight, promised, Beholden (beholding) to, obliged to, Behote, promised, Benome, deprived, taken away, Besants, gold coins, Beseek, beseech, Beseen, appointed, arrayed, Beskift, shove off, Bested, beset, Betaken, entrusted, Betaught, entrusted, recommended, Betid, ...
— Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I (of II) - King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table • Thomas Malory
... all coruen woorkes, are brought into theim by other. Thei bewrie their kyng in a donghille, for other thei wille skante take so muche laboure. There is no people that better kiepeth their promise and couenaunt, then thei doe, and thus thei behight it. ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt


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