Behight
Behight ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Old English bihaten, Anglo-Saxon behātan to vow, promise; pref. be- + hātan to call, command. See Hight, v.]
1.
To promise; to vow. [Obsolete in all its senses.]
Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve.
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 , noun
A vow; a promise. [Obsolete] — Surrey