behightとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English beheten, bihaten, behoten (preterite behighte), from 古期英語 behātan (“to promise, vow, pledge oneself, threaten”) (preterite behēhte), corresponding to be- +‎ hight. Cognate with Scots beheit, behecht (“to promise, vow”), Middle High German beheizen (“to promise”).

動詞

behight (三人称単数 現在形 behights, 現在分詞 behighting, 過去形および過去分詞形 behight または behighted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) 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.

2. (dialectal, Northern England) To be designated.

   Wheea behight thee? = What is your name/to whom do you belong?

3. (obsolete, transitive) To give in trust; to commit; to entrust.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 1, canto 10, stanza 50:

     The keys are to thy hand behight.

4. (obsolete) To mean, or intend.
   • 1559, unknown author, Mirror for Magistrates

     More than heart behighteth.

5. (obsolete) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 4, canto 3, stanza 31:

     But nathelesse whilst all the lookers on
     Him dead behight, as he to all appeard,
     All vnawares he started vp anon,

6. (obsolete) To call; to name; to address.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 5, canto 4, stanza 25:

     Whom […] he knew and thus behight.

7. (obsolete) To command; to order.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 2, canto 11, stanza 17: