<span class="searchmatch">behighting</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">behight</span>...
promise”). <span class="searchmatch">behight</span> (third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">behights</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">behighting</span>, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">behight</span> or behighted)...
<span class="searchmatch">behights</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of <span class="searchmatch">behight</span>...
variant of behete, behote, from Old English behātan (“to order; command; promise”). More at <span class="searchmatch">behight</span>. behecht to promise behecht (plural behechts) a promise...
English behatan, equivalent to bi- + haten. bihaten to promise English: <span class="searchmatch">behight</span>, behote Scots: behecht “bihōten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:...
Alfred used ġehātan instead. Conjugation of behātan (strong, class VII) Middle English: bihaten, beheten, behoten English: behote, <span class="searchmatch">behight</span> Scots: behecht...
only in literary and dialectal use. It chiefly occurs in the past tense. <span class="searchmatch">behight</span> call — see call be called — see also be called hight (not comparable) (archaic)...