Behight

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(obsolete, transitive) To vow, promise (someone)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, transitive) To vow, promise (someone).
2. (dialectal, Northern England) To be designated.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To give in trust; to commit; to entrust.
4. (obsolete) To mean, or intend.
5. (obsolete) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
6. (obsolete) To call; to name; to address.
7. (obsolete) To command; to order.
8. (obsolete) A vow; a promise.

Example Sentences

Thenne I behote yow sayd Balyn parte of his blood to hele youre sone with alle.

Wheea behight thee? = What is your name/to whom do you belong?

The keys are to thy hand behight.

More than heart behighteth.

But nathelesse whilst all the lookers on / Him dead behight, as he to all appeard, / All vnawares he started vp anon,

Whom […] he knew and thus behight.

And his well proued weapons to him hent; / So taking courteous conge he behight, / Those gates to be vnbar'd, and forth he went.

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Word Forms

• behights
• behighting
• behight
• behighted
• behote

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