hight

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  1. adjective Archaic Named or called.

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  1. Middle English, past participle of highten, hihten, to call, be called, from hehte, hight, past tense of hoten, from Old English hātan; see kei-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. An anomalous verb whose forms have been confused from the Middle English period. The principal parts are properly infinitive and indicative present hote, preterit hight, past participle hoten; from Middle English (1) infinitive (transitive) hoten, with umlaut heten, earlier haten, indicative present hote, etc., erroneously hight, etc., preterit hight, hiʒt, heʒt, heht, het, plural highten, hiʒten, etc., past participle hoten, hote, with umlaut heten, hete, and erroneously hight, etc., command, order, call, name; (2) infinitive (intransitive) hoten, etc., erroneously hight, etc., indicative present and preterit hatte, hattest, hatte, and hote, hat, hight, etc. (the forms being mixed), be called or named (orig. a present passive, extended to preterit, etc.: see below); = Old Saxon hētan = OFries. hēta = Dutch heeten= Middle Low German hēten, Low German hēten, heiten = Old High German heizan, heizzan, Middle High German heizen, German heissen = Icelandic heita= Swedish heta= Danish hedde, all used as transitive, call, and intransitive, be called, or intransitive only, = Goth, haitan (preterit redupl. haihait (= Anglo-Saxon hēht, Middle English heʒt, hiʒt, English hight), past participle haitans,) command, order, call, name, with present passive haitada (= Anglo-Saxon hātte, present, used also as preterit from its similarity in form to a weak preterit). This verb, the only one in Anglo-Saxon and English preserving a trace of the orig. passive inflection, has been misunderstood and misused; in modern poets it is often an imitation of Spenser.
 

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