Meaning of behight | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To vow, promise (someone).
   obsolete, transitive
2. To be designated.
   Northern-England, dialectal
3. To give in trust; to commit; to entrust.
   obsolete, transitive
4. To mean, or intend.
   obsolete
5. To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
   obsolete
6. To call; to name; to address.
   obsolete
7. To command; to order.
   obsolete

Examples

“Thenne I behote yow sayd Balyn parte of his blood to hele youre sone with alle.”

“Wheea behight thee? = What is your name/to whom do you belong?”

“The keys are to thy hand behight.”

“More than heart behighteth.”

“But nathelesse whilst all the lookers on / Him dead behight, as he to all appeard, / All vnawares he started vp anon,”

“Whom […] he knew and thus behight.”

“And his well proued weapons to him hent; / So taking courteous conge he behight, / Those gates to be vnbar'd, and forth he went.”

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