hest
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 6
- Letters
- 4
Definition of hest
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(obsolete)Command, injunction.
“[T]hou [Ariel] vvaſt a Spirit too delicate / To act her [the witch Sycorax's] earthy, and abhord commands, / Refuſing her grand heſts, ſhe did confine thee / By helpe of her more potent Miniſters, / And in her moſt vnmittigable rage, / Into a cloven Pyne, […]”
“Fer[dinand]. […] VVhat is your name? / Mir[anda]. Miranda, O my Father, / I haue broke your heſt to ſay ſo.”
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Etymology
From Middle English heste, alteration of Middle English hes, from Old English hǣs (“command”). Akin to Old English hātan "to command". More at hight.
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