BEHIGHT • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Behight

Behight v. t. (past behight; past part. behight, behoten) (Obs. in all its senses.)

To promise; to vow. "Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve."

To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. "The keys are to thy hand behight."

To adjudge; to assign by authority. "The second was to Triamond behight."

To mean, or intend. "More than heart behighteth."

To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. "All the lookers-on him dead behight."

To call; to name; to address. "Whom... he knew and thus behight."

To command; to order. "He behight those gates to be unbarred."