behight Meaning, Definition & Usage

OE. bihaten, AS. behatan to vow, promise; pref. be- + hatan to call, command. See Hight, v.

imperfect Behight; past participle Behight, Behoten

Obs. in all its senses.

To promise; to vow.
Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. Surrey.
To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
The keys are to thy hand behight. Spenser.
To adjudge; to assign by authority.
The second was to Triamond behight. Spenser.
To mean, or intend.
More than heart behighteth. Mir. for Mag.
To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
All the lookers-on him dead behight. Spenser.
To call; to name; to address.
Whom . . . he knew and thus behight. Spenser.
To command; to order.
He behight those gates to be unbarred. Spenser.