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hight🔊

(archaic) To call, name.

💬 Quotations

“Lord,” said Sir Launcelot, “I am hight Launcelot, and am surnamed ‘He of the Lake.’”

Howard Pyle, The Story of the Champions of the Round Table (1905)

(archaic) To be called or named.

(archaic, dialectal) To command; to enjoin.

(archaic) Called, named.

📑 Synonyms: yclept

💬 Quotations

[…] there dwelt in a city of the cities of China a man which was a tailor, withal a pauper, and he had one son, Alaeddin hight.

Richard Francis Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night (1886)

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