hest

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
6
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/hɛst/

Definition of hest

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (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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