Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A promise; vow; pledge.
- To promise; vow.
- To call; name.
- To address.
- To pronounce; declare to be.
- To mean; intend.
- To commit; intrust.
- To adjudge.
- To command; ordain.
- To address one's self.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A vow; a promise.
- transitive verb To promise; to vow.
- transitive verb To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
- transitive verb To adjudge; to assign by authority.
- transitive verb To mean, or intend.
- transitive verb To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
- transitive verb To call; to name; to address.
- transitive verb To command; to order.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
vow ,promise (someone). - verb dialectal, Northern England To be
designated .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Slytt þe bely of the hyndur part / & so do ye right, and alle hoole take owt þe fische, like as y yow behight.
Introducing Triple-Yogh Days: Complete with a Random Bullets of Catch-up Preamble Heo 2008
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But Leonard would not with them; and Hugh behight him, if he lived and did well, to come back somehow to the
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The guest now drew forth, not three nobles, but four, and laid them on the table, and said: Lo, my friend, the three nobles which I behight thee! now are they thine; but this other thou shalt take and spend for me.
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Wherefore I behight thee to let me serve thee if I may whenso the occasion cometh, even if it be to my own pain and grief; for this I know thou meanest.
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And those, he said, were angels of God, and that place was Paradise, that God had behight to his friends, saying, DABO VOBIS TERRAM FLUENTEM LACTE ET MELLE.
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There is no people that better kiepeth their promise and couenaunt, then thei doe, and thus thei behight it.
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And among all other folk, they say that they be best beloved of God, and that to them belongeth the heritage that God behight to his beloved children.
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Lord Jesu Christ; the which is the same land that our Lord behight us in heritage.
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Also, Sir Launcelot, Galahad prayed you to remember of this unsiker world as ye behight him when ye were together more than half a year.
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Then they traced and traversed, and waxed wonderly wroth, and either behight other death; they hewed so fast with their swords that they cut in down half their swords and mails, that the bare flesh in some place stood above their harness.
AnWulf commented on the word behight
Behight v. t. (past behight; past part. behight, behoten)
November 14, 2011