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▪ I. behest, n.|bɪˈhɛst|
Forms: 1 behǽs, 2–3 bihese, biheaste, 2–6 bi-, byheste, 3–6 beheste, 4–5 be-, bi-, byheest(e, 4–6 bi-, byhest, 6–7 beheast, 4– behest.
[OE. behǽs fem. (acc. behǽse) was the regular repr. of OTeut. *bihait-ti-, abst. n. f. bihait-an, in OE. behátan to behight (see Sievers, Ags. Gr. §232); thence, early ME. bihese, soon altered to bihes-te, by form analogy with words in -te, OE. -t. For full phonetic history see hest. The OE. bihǽs, like the vb. bihátan, occurs only in the sense of ‘promise, vow,’ but in ME. biheste acquired the sense of the simple hǽs, hest, f. hátan ‘to command’; see hight. Cf. the equivalent behote, OE. behát neut., with its ME. variants behete, behight.]
†1. A vow, promise. Very common in the phr. land of behest: land of promise. Obs.
a1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 61 But [we] lesten ure bihese. 1205Lay. 1263 He bi-heihte hire biheste. c1230Hali Meid. 39 Ich habbe ihalden mine biheaste þruppe. c1300St. Brandan 76 Bifore the ȝates of Paradys in the Lond of Biheste. c1386Chaucer Frankl. Prol. 26 Breken his biheste. 1388Wyclif Heb. xi. 9 Bi feith he dwelte in the loond of biheest. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) iv. xxvi. 193 Why is this commaundement gyuen with a byhest of helthe. 1562Foxe A. & M. I. 454/1 He behight to him and to his Heirs the Land of behest. 1587Turberv. Trag. T. (1837) 89 She made a large behest, Of gold that she would franklike give. 1634Malory's Arthur (1816) I. Prol. 13 Duke Joshua, which brought the children of Israel into the land of beheast.
2. A command, injunction, bidding.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 33 Þu scoldest halden cristes biheste. 1388Wyclif Ecclus. xxiv. 33 Moises comaundide a lawe in the comaundementis of riȝtfulnessis..and biheestis to Israel. 1528More Heresyes i. Wks. 157/2 That thei should kepe his byhestes. 1591Spenser Ruines Time 73 To fall before her feete at her beheast. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 238 Us he [God] sends upon his high behests. 1857Buckle Civilis. iii. 140 We see the subtlest..of all forces..obeying even the most capricious behests of the human mind.
▪ II. † beˈhest, v. Obs.
Also 2 bihaste, 6 beheast; pa. pple. 6 behest.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. (or with subord. clause). To vow, promise.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 185 Þu..bihastest us wiþ þon þet we neomen hit heouenliche blissen. c1430Lydg. Bochas ii. xii. (1554) 51 God hath behested to Dauid and his lyne..In Jerusalem how they shal succede. c1440Promp. Parv. 29. 1477 Marg. Paston in Lett. 809 III. 215 The gyrdyl that my fadyr be hestyt me. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 3 b, I haue behest a pygge to saynt Anthony. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xiii. 3 Thou haddest euen vowed and beheasted thy selfe to utter ruine. 1566Gascoigne Jocasta Wks. (1587) 92 As much as late I did behest to thee. |