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

 Be·hight, n. A vow; a promise. [Obs.]
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