BEHEST meaning: Command or directive given authoritatively

We found 23 dictionaries that define the word behest:

General (22 matching dictionaries)

behest: Merriam-Webster.com
behest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
behest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
behest: Collins English Dictionary
behest: Vocabulary.com
Behest, behest: Wordnik
behest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
behest: Wiktionary
behest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
behest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
behest: Infoplease Dictionary
Behest, behest: Dictionary.com
behest: Online Etymology Dictionary
behest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Behest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
behest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
behest: Rhymezone
Behest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
behest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
behest: Free Dictionary
behest: Mnemonic Dictionary
behest: Dictionary/thesaurus

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behest: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (behest)

▸ noun:  A command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request; now usually in the phrase at the behest of.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A vow; a promise.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To promise; vow.

Opposite:

disregard, ignore, disobey, contradict

Phrases:

at the behest of someone, behest of, at the behest of, more...

Adjectives:

high, divine, own, last, stern, great, royal, slightest, urgent, personal, least

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