Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Command; behest.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A command; bidding; injunction; behest.
  • noun A promise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Archaic Command; precept; injunction.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete Command, injunction.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, alteration of hes, from Old English hǣs; see keiə- in Indo-European roots.]

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Middle English, alteration of Middle English hes from Old English hǣs ("command"). Akin to Old English hātan "to command". More at hight

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Examples

  • Becker's voice hailed Mac from his hest modification.

    Massage 2010

  • Tankens vingede hest letter, flyver op fra hjernens uendelighed, kaster lys

    Thought's winged horse David McDuff 2010

  • Peace be on those who follow in the way of Salvation, fearing the issues of fornication, and obey the hest of the Most High King, Lord of this world and the next, Him who saith to a thing, ‘Be’; and it becometh!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Away to the harbour and the tents, my friends, to prove the toils of slavery! for such is fate's relentless hest.

    Hecuba 2008

  • His Fate, for creatures works and none His hest gainsays,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “I hear and obey thy hest,” answered he; and she began to tell in these words,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Kenneth, “to debate thine hest;” and swallowed the narcotic, mingled as it was with some water from the spring, then wrapped him in the haik, or Arab cloak, which had been fastened to his saddle-pommel, and, according to the directions of the physician, stretched himself at ease in the shade to await the promised repose.

    The Talisman 2008

  • Musa passed on to the third tablet, whereon was written, O son of Adam, the things of this world thou lovest and prizest and the hest of thy Lord thou spurnest and despisest.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Away to the harbour and the tents, my friends, to prove the toils of slavery! for such is fate's relentless hest.

    Hecuba 2008

  • My heart obeyed my hest and soon forgot thy memory,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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