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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
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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