Crossword clues for behest
behest
- Man enters top command
- Command - Thebes
- Earnest request
- Order parting gift after Queen makes way for husband
- Order fellows into risky venture
- Order cream - what's in it?
- Order ambassador to infiltrate elite
- The fellow's in risky venture giving order
- Authoritative order
- Authoritative command
- Urgent prompting
- Strong request
- An authoritative command
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Behest \Be*hest"\, n. [OE. biheste promise, command, AS. beh[=ae]s promise; pref. be- + h[=ae]s command. See Hest, Hight.]
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That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
To do his master's high behest.
--Sir W. Scott. -
A vow; a promise. [Obs.]
The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made.
--Paston.
Behest \Be*hest"\, v. t.
To vow. [Obs.]
--Paston.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request. (from 12th c.) 2 A vow; a promise. vb. (context obsolete English) To promise; vow.
WordNet
n. an authoritative command or request
Usage examples of "behest".
The assistant to the surgeon-superintendent, whether at the behest of his master or by his own decision, came to conclude that the becalming of the vessel and the invasion of the pestilence from the cracks and the bilges, which had in itself a biblical connotation as if one of the plagues upon Egypt, had come about because of the blasphemy of the whores on board.
Beginning with thee, O Phoebus, I will recount the famous deeds of men of old, who, at the behest of King Pelias, down through the mouth of Pontus and between the Cyanean rocks, sped well-benched Argo in quest of the golden fleece.
It was a youthful figure, all right 22 or so years of age in spite of the voluminous genuine blond mustache that thrust itself fiercely out each side of the slightly fattish face a mustache that looked as though it might have been grown at behest of lady faire!
Lafayette, whose budding radicalism greatly displeased the King and Queen, but who was included at the behest of his kinsman Noailles.
It was a four-by-four-foot square, which hissed with a rush of siphoned air and opened at the behest of some hidden piston when he tugged a lever.
At Thy behest Thou dost render victorious whomsoever Thou willest, through the hosts of heaven and earth and whatsoever existeth between them.
He maketh victorious whomsoever He pleaseth, through the potency of His behest.
On behalf of the Trusteeship and Security Councils, and at the behest of the Secretary-General, I ask you to give it your speedy approval.
A mediator was called in at the behest of the mayor of Hopewell and the governor of the State of Illinois and with the blessing of both union and management, but he failed to make headway.
Mrs Leavening how she had prospered that morning in her search for lodgings, he had no difficulty in obeying this behest.
Look forth now, my people, upon the land of behest, even from Horeb and from Nebo and from Pisgah and from the Horns of Hatten unto a land flowing with milk and money.
Although the new white masters and their queen beyond the seas had decreed that the Matabele no longer own aniahoh, slaves, yet these Rozwi iron smiths were still the dogs of the Matabele, still performed their art at the behest of their warlike masters.
She might claim to be a changed woman, having taken up the Ard Rhys mantle at the behest of Walker Boh, having been given the blessing of Druids dead and gone, and having pledged herself to reestablish the Druid Council as a viable force in the Four Lands.
And the Aristarchs, after mature consideration, declined to undertake so great an expense for so vague a behest.
Then the anxious mother had enforced the De Courcy behests with all a mother's authority.