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Webster 1913 Edition

Hight

Hight

,
Noun.
A variant of
Height
.

Hight

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[
imp.
Hight
,
Hot
,
p. p.
Hight
,
Hote
([GREEK]),
Hoten
([GREEK]). See
Hote
.]
[OE.
heiten
,
highten
,
haten
,
hoten
; also
hight
,
hatte
,
hette
, is called, was called, AS.
hātan
to call, name, be called, to command, promise; also
hātte
is called, was called; akin to G.
heissen
to call, be called, bid, Goth.
haitan
to call, in the passive, to be called.]
1.
To be called or named.
[Archaic & Poetic.]
☞ In the form hight, it is used in a passive sense as a present, meaning is called or named, also as a preterite, was called or named. This form has also been used as a past participle. See
Hote
.
The great poet of Italy,
That
highte
Dante.
Chaucer.
Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she
hight
.
Surrey.
Entered then into the church the Reverend Teacher.
Father he
hight
, and he was, in the parish.
Longfellow.
Childe Harold was he
hight
.
Byron.
2.
To command; to direct; to impel.
[Obs.]
But the sad steel seized not where it was
hight

Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall.
Spenser.
3.
To commit; to intrust.
[Obs.]
Yet charge of them was to a porter
hight
.
Spenser.
4.
To promise.
[Obs.]
He had hold his day, as he had
hight
.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hight

HIGHT

,
Noun.
hite, or hith.
1.
Elevation above the ground; any indefinite distance above the earth. The eagle flies at a great hight, or highth.
2.
The altitude of an object; the distance which any thing rises above its foot, basis or foundation; as the hight, or highth of a tower or steeple.
3.
Elevation of a star or other celestial luminary above the horizon.
4.
Degree of latitude either north or south. In this application, the distance from the equator is considered as elevation. Latitudes are higher as they approach the pole.
Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south.
5.
Distance of one thing above another.
6.
An eminence; a summit; an elevated part of any thing.
7.
A hill or mountain; any elevated ground; as the hights of Dorchester.
8.
Elevation of rank; station of dignity or office.
By him that raised me to this careful height.
9.
Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts.
10. Elevation in fame or reputation.
11. Utmost degree in extent or violence; as the highth or hight of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly, of happiness, of good breeding. So we say, the hight of a tempest.
12. Utmost exertion.
I shall now put you to the height of your breeding.
13. Advance; degree; progress towards perfection or elevation; speaking comparatively.
Social duties are carried to a greater height--by the principles of our religion.

Definition 2024

hight

hight

English

Alternative forms

  • highte

Verb

hight ‎(third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle hight) hight is only the preterite or past participle, not the infinitive or present.

  1. (archaic, transitive) To call, name.
    • Byron
      Childe Harold was he hight.
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To be called or named.
    • Surrey
      Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.
Translations

Adjective

hight ‎(not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Called, named.
Translations

Etymology 2

See height

Noun

hight ‎(plural hights)

  1. Obsolete form of height.

Anagrams

Etymology

From Middle English hight ‎(“to be named, be called”) (alternative past participle of hoten), from Old English hēht ‎(preterite of hātan, “to be named, be called”), from *hehait-, reduplicate preterite base of Proto-Germanic *haitaną ‎(“to call, command, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *key(w)-, *kyew- ‎(“to set in motion”). Cognate with Low German heten, German heißen, Danish hedde, West Frisian hite, Dutch heten, and Swedish heta, Latin cieō ‎(“I call, I set in motion”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aɪt
  • IPA(key): /haɪt/
  • Homophone: height

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