behight — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

1. To vow, promise (someone).

   Uso

   • obsoleto
   • transitivo

   Esempi

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

2. To be designated.

   Uso

   • Northern-England
   • dialectal

   Esempi

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

3. To give in trust; to commit; to entrust.

   Uso

   • obsoleto
   • transitivo

   Esempi

   The keys are to thy hand behight.

4. To mean, or intend.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Esempi

   More than heart behighteth.

5. To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Esempi

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

6. To call; to name; to address.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Esempi

   Whom […] he knew and thus behight.

7. To command; to order.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Esempi

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

Sostantivo

1. A vow; a promise.

   Uso

   • obsoleto