Be*hight" (?), v. t. [imp. Behight; p. p. Behight, Behoten.] [OE. bihaten, AS. behatan to vow, promise; pref. be- + hatan to call, command. See Hight, v.] [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.
© Webster 1913.
Be*hight", n.
A vow; a promise.
[Obs.]
Surrey.
© Webster 1913.