Behight

(be-hīt'), v. t. [imp. BEHOT.] [A-S. be-hātan, behētan, to vow, promise, from the prefix be and hātan, hētan, to call, command; O. S. hetan, Goth. haitan, Icel. heita, Sw. heta, Dan. hede, D. heeten, O. H. Ger. heizan, heizan, N. H. Ger. heissen.] 1. To name or declare in the way of promise. Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. Surrey.

2. To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. “The keys are to thy hand behight.” Spenser.
3. To call by name; to address; to command.

Spenser.

4. To hold, mean, or intend. “More than heart behighteth.” Mir. for Mag.
5. To consider or esteem to be.

All the lookers-on him dead behight. Spenser. [This word is in all its senses obsolete. Its orthography is corrupt; it should be behite.]