▪ I. † hete Obs.
[By-form of hote, hight n.1, conformed to the verbal inflexion hete of hight v.: cf. behete n.]
Command, promise.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 6872 (Gött.) As godd had hight him in his hete. Ibid. 11897 Þai haf halden him þar hete [Cott. haite] Þar-in þai hang him be þe fete. 13.. Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1525 Ȝe, þat ar so cortays & coynt of your hetes. c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 345 Lere me to som man..that..halt Godes hetes [Royal MS. hestys]. c 1420 Sir Amadas (Weber) 440 Weyte thou be large of pey and hete. |
▪ II. hete
see eat, hate, heat, hight, hot, hote.