Behight

Be·hight

Behight

v. t.

imp. Behight; p. p. Behight

  1. To promise; to vow. [Obs. in all its senses.]
    Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve.
    — Surrey.
  2. To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
    The keys are to thy hand behight.
  3. To adjudge; to assign by authority.
    The second was to Triamond behight.
  4. To mean, or intend.
    More than heart behighteth.
  5. To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
    All the lookers-on him dead behight.
  6. To call; to name; to address.
    Whom . . . he knew and thus behight.
  7. To command; to order.
    He behight those gates to be unbarred.

Behight

n.
  1. A vow; a promise. [Obs.]