BEHIGHT

v. n.

8 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To promise; to vow. Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. Surrey.

2.
v.

To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. The keys are to thy hand behight. Spenser.

3.
v.

To adjudge; to assign by authority. The second was to Triamond behight. Spenser.

4.
v.

To mean, or intend. More than heart behighteth. Mir. for Mag.

5.
v.

To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. All the lookers-on him dead behight. Spenser.

6.
v.

To call; to name; to address. Whom . . . he knew and thus behight. Spenser.

7.
v.

To command; to order. He behight those gates to be unbarred. Spenser.

8.
n.

A vow; a promise. [Obs.] Surrey.

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