Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to behight
Participle: behighted
Gerund: behighting
Indicative
Present
| I | behight |
| you | behight |
| he;she;it | behights |
| we | behight |
| you | behight |
| they | behight |
Perfect
| I | have behighted |
| you | have behighted |
| he;she;it | has behighted |
| we | have behighted |
| you | have behighted |
| they | have behighted |
Past
| I | behighted |
| you | behighted |
| he;she;it | behighted |
| we | behighted |
| you | behighted |
| they | behighted |
Pluperfect
| I | had behighted |
| you | had behighted |
| he;she;it | had behighted |
| we | had behighted |
| you | had behighted |
| they | had behighted |
Future
| I | will behight |
| you | will behight |
| he;she;it | will behight |
| we | will behight |
| you | will behight |
| they | will behight |
Future Perfect
| I | will have behighted |
| you | will have behighted |
| he;she;it | will have behighted |
| we | will have behighted |
| you | will have behighted |
| they | will have behighted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | behight |
| you | behight |
| he;she;it | behight |
| we | behight |
| you | behight |
| they | behight |
Perfect
| I | have behighted |
| you | have behighted |
| he;she;it | have behighted |
| we | have behighted |
| you | have behighted |
| they | have behighted |
Imperfect
| I | behighted |
| you | behighted |
| he;she;it | behighted |
| we | behighted |
| you | behighted |
| they | behighted |
Pluperfect
| I | had behighted |
| you | had behighted |
| he;she;it | had behighted |
| we | had behighted |
| you | had behighted |
| they | had behighted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would behight |
| you | would behight |
| he;she;it | would behight |
| we | would behight |
| you | would behight |
| they | would behight |
Perfect
| I | would have behighted |
| you | would have behighted |
| he;she;it | would have behighted |
| we | would have behighted |
| you | would have behighted |
| they | would have behighted |
Imperative
| you | behight |
| we | Let's behight |
| you | behight |
Verbs conjugated like 'behight'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'behight'
bedight,
befight,
belight,
benight,
befright,
beknight,
besigh,
blight,
bright,
delight,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English beheten, bihaten, behoten (preterite behighte), from Old English 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”). See: Scots '
beheit', Middle High German '
beheizen'.
Sample Sentences
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Thenne I behote yow sayd Balyn parte of his blood to hele youre sone with alle. [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book II:]
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Wheea behight thee? = What is your name/to whom do you belong?
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The keys are to thy hand behight. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 50:]
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More than heart behighteth. [1559, unknown author, Mirror for Magistrates:]
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But nathelesse whilst all the lookers on / Him dead behight, as he to all appeard, / All vnawares he started vp anon, [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31:]
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Whom […] he knew and thus behight. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 25:]
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And his well proued weapons to him hent; / So taking courteous conge he behight, / Those gates to be vnbar'd, and forth he went. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17:]