Be‐hight″ (�), v. t. [imp.Behight; p. p.Behight, Behoten.] [OE. bihaten, AS. behātan to vow, promise; pref. be- + hātan to call, command. See Hight, v.] 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.