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(), v. t.[imp.Behight; p. p.Behight, Behoten.] [OE. bihaten, AS. behtan to vow, promise; pref. be- + htan to call, command. See Hight, v.] [Obs. in all its senses.] 1. To promise; to vow. Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. Surrey. 2. To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. The keys are to thy hand behight. Spenser. 3. To adjudge; to assign by authority. The second was to Triamond behight. Spenser. 4. To mean, or intend. More than heart behighteth. Mir. for Mag. 5. To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. All the lookers-on him dead behight. Spenser. 6. To call; to name; to address. Whom . . . he knew and thus behight. Spenser. 7. To command; to order. He behight those gates to be unbarred. Spenser. Behight" n.A vow; a promise. [Obs.] Surrey. スポンサード リンク
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