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Definition of Behest
1. Noun. An authoritative command or request.
Definition of Behest
1. n. That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
2. v. t. To vow.
Definition of Behest
1. Noun. A command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request. (defdate from 12th c.) ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete) To promise; vow. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Behest
1. a command [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Behest
Literary usage of Behest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... And lie eke, for I breake my behest. " Now looke than if they be not to blame,
... behest ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"The love-god to his mother's dear behest Gave prompt assent. He put his pinions
by And tripped it like Iulus, light of heart. But Venus o'er Ascanius' body ..."
3. Modern Russian poetry: texts and translations by Paul Selver (1917)
"I questioned with dominant ocean, Where life's mighty behest to descry ; I was
answered by resonant ocean: " Be thou ever full-sounding as I ! ..."
4. A Dictionary of American Politics: Comprising Accounts of Political Parties by Everit Brown, Albert Strauss (1907)
"... and we record our conviction that a new and serious peril confronts our country,
in the fact that its President, at the behest of the beer power, dares, ..."
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