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Designated vs Behight - What's the difference?

designated | behight |

As verbs the difference between designated and behight

is that designated is (designate) while behight is (obsolete|transitive) to vow, promise (someone).

As an adjective designated

is having a specified designation.

designated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (designate)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a specified designation

    • Derived terms

    * designated agent * designated driver * designated hitter * designated marksman * designated milk * designated patient * designated person * designated service * designated survivor * designated value * designated volume

    behight

    English

    Alternative forms

    * behote

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) To vow, promise (someone).
  • * 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book II:
    • Thenne I behote yow sayd Balyn parte of his blood to hele youre sone with alle.
  • (dialectal, Northern England) To be designated.
    • Wheea behight thee? = What is your name/to whom do you belong?
  • (obsolete) To give in trust; to commit; to entrust.
  • * Spenser
    • The keys are to thy hand behight .
  • (obsolete) To mean, or intend.
  • * Mirror for Magistrates
    • More than heart behighteth .
  • (obsolete) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
  • * Spenser
    • All the lookers-on him dead behight .
  • (obsolete) To call; to name; to address.
  • * Spenser
    • Whom he knew and thus behight .
  • To command; to order.
  • * Spenser
    • He behight those gates to be unbarred.