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behight

CIDE DICTIONARY

behightv. t. [OE. bihaten, AS. behātan to vow, promise; pref. be- + hātan to call, command. See Hight, v.].
  •  To promise; to vow.  [1913 Webster]
    "Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.  [1913 Webster]
    "The keys are to thy hand behight."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To adjudge; to assign by authority.  [1913 Webster]
    "The second was to Triamond behight."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To mean, or intend.  [1913 Webster]
    "More than heart behighteth."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.  [1913 Webster]
    "All the lookers-on him dead behight."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To call; to name; to address.  [1913 Webster]
    "Whom . . . he knew and thus behight."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To command; to order.  [1913 Webster]
    "He behight those gates to be unbarred."  [1913 Webster]
behightn. 
     A vow; a promise.  Surrey.  [1913 Webster]
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