Behight vs Belight - What's the difference?
behight | belight |
(obsolete) To vow, promise (someone).
* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book II:
(dialectal, Northern England) To be designated.
(obsolete) To give in trust; to commit; to entrust.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To mean, or intend.
* Mirror for Magistrates
(obsolete) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To call; to name; to address.
* Spenser
To command; to order.
* Spenser
(transitive, rare, dialectal) To light up; illuminate.
(intransitive, rare, dialectal) To become lit up; shine up; dawn.
As verbs the difference between behight and belight
is that behight is (obsolete|transitive) to vow, promise (someone) while belight is (transitive|rare|dialectal) to light up; illuminate.behight
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Alternative forms
* behoteVerb
(head)- Thenne I behote yow sayd Balyn parte of his blood to hele youre sone with alle.
- Wheea behight thee? = What is your name/to whom do you belong?
- The keys are to thy hand behight .
- More than heart behighteth .
- All the lookers-on him dead behight .
- Whom he knew and thus behight .
- He behight those gates to be unbarred.
