BEHOTE

Verb

behote

Obsolete form of behight.

Source: Wiktionary

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BEHIGHT

Be*hight", v. t. [imp. Behight; p. p. Behight, Behoten.] Etym: [OE. bihaten, AS. behatan to vow, promise; pref. be- + hatan 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.

Be*hight", n.

Definition: A vow; a promise. [Obs.] Surrey.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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