HOTE

Etymology

Verb

hote (third-person singular simple present hotes, present participle hoting, simple past hight, past participle hoten)

(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To command; to enjoin.

(obsolete) To promise.

(obsolete, intransitive) To be called, be named.

(obsolete, transitive) To call, name.

Usage notes

• In the sense of "to command, enjoin", hight may be replaced as follows

The captain hight five sailors stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo. = The captain said to five sailors: Stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo.

Beowulf hight his men build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever. = Beowulf said to his men: Build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever.

• The word survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is no longer used in common speech.

Anagrams

• Theo, Theo., etho-, theo-

Source: Wiktionary

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Hote, v. t. & i. [pres. & imp. Hatte, Hot (, etc.; p. p. Hote, Hoten (, Hot, etc. See Hight, Hete.]

1. To command; to enjoin. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

2. To promise. [Obs.] Chaucer.

3. To be called; to be named. [Obs.] There as I was wont to hote Arcite, Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite. Chaucer.

HETE

Hete, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Hete, later Het.]

Definition: Variant of Hote. [Obs.] But one avow to greate God I hete. Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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