What is "behoten"

Behight \Be*hight"\, v. t. [imp. Behight; p. p. Behight, Behoten.] [OE. bihaten, AS. beh[=a]tan to vow, promise; pref. be- + h[=a]tan to call, command. See Hight, v.] [Obs. in all its senses.]

1. To promise; to vow.

   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 adjudge; to assign by authority.

   The second was to Triamond behight.
   --Spenser.

4. To mean, or intend.

   More than heart behighteth.
   --Mir. for Mag.

5. To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.

   All the lookers-on him dead behight.
   --Spenser.

6. To call; to name; to address.

   Whom . . . he knew and thus behight.
   --Spenser.

7. To command; to order.

   He behight those gates to be unbarred.
   --Spenser.