Word Direct Answers

What does "behight" mean?

Behight: To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. The keys are to thy hand behight. Spenser.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To adjudge; to assign by authority. The second was to Triamond behight. Spenser.
  2. 3.To mean, or intend. More than heart behighteth. Mir. for Mag.
  3. 4.To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. All the lookers-on him dead behight. Spenser.
  4. 5.To call; to name; to address. Whom . . . he knew and thus behight. Spenser.
  5. 6.To command; to order. He behight those gates to be unbarred. Spenser.
  6. 7.A vow; a promise. [Obs.] Surrey.

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