Usually means: Promised or commanded in the past.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. behight: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. behight: Collins English Dictionary
  3. behight: Wordnik
  4. behight: Wiktionary
  5. Behight, behight: Dictionary.com
  6. Behight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. behight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Behight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. behight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. behight: Free Dictionary
  11. Behight: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (behight)

verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To vow, promise (someone).
verb:  (dialectal, Northern England) To be designated.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To give in trust; to commit; to entrust.
verb:  (obsolete) To mean, or intend.
verb:  (obsolete) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
verb:  (obsolete) To call; to name; to address.
verb:  (obsolete) To command; to order.
noun:  (obsolete) A vow; a promise.

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