Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
behight .
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- verb obsolete Alternative form of
behight .
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Examples
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And they be false and traitors; and they last nought that they behote.
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And when they hold any siege about castle or town that is walled and defensible, they behote to them that be within to do all the profit and good, that it is marvel to hear; and they grant also to them that be within all that they will ask them.
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Then the king let send after all manner of leeches and surgeons, both unto men and women, and there was none that would behote him the life.
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Then I behote you, said Balin, part of his blood to heal your son withal.
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Now this I behote thee, that here in Hart mayst thou
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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And this I behote thee, that to holm shall she flee not,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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Then the king let send after all manner of leeches and surgeons, both unto men and women, and there was none that would behote him the life.
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Then I behote you, said Balin, part of his blood to heal your son withal.
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I never read in no Scripture that He behote to write all the Pope's decretals, nor to see that no Archbishop of
The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"He behote to dwell in all humble and faithful souls -- they be His
The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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