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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1500
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Hicht, v.1 Also: hycht, hight, hyght. [ME. hiht, hight (a 1300), var. of heght, etc. Cf. Hecht v.1 In this form rare after the 15th c.] tr. To promise, vow, undertake. Variously const.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxii. 212.
Scho sal cum to thé … To do thi wil; that I thé hicht a1400 Ib. xlvi. 143.
The pouere thu hichtis me … I refuse 1407 Bk. Carlaverock II. 418.
The qwylk … lande we … hyghtys to mak … to the forsayd Syr Harbarte c1460 Consail Wys Man 165.
Be nocht lefull to hicht na grant(b) 1375 Barb. II. 206.
[He] hycht all Fyfe In warysoun Till him a1400 Legends of the Saints x. 323.
He … halfe his kinryk hycht hym sone a1400 Ib. xxxviii. 257.
I cume for to cal one thé, As I hicht thé befor c1420 Wynt. viii. 4647.
He fullfillyd all that he hycht 1488 Lanark B. Rec. 4.
To do at he hycht to do a1500 Bk. Chess 663.
Scho wrait him to, so that he wald hir wed … , The quhilk he hicht(c) a1400 Legends of the Saints xi. 137.
The King of Babylone had hycht on tham of Inde … to fycht a1400 Ib. xxxvi. 1016. c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 645.
The syluer and the gold … [that] Was hight thame frome Pryame
b. I hicht, I undertake, I dare say. 1375 Barb. vii. 156.
The kyng, that hungry wes, I hicht 1375 Ib. ix. 480.
This schir Eduard, forsuth I hicht, Wes … a nobill knycht ?1438 Alex. i. 1498.
Emynedus the wicht May sie his poynt, forsuth I hicht
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