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hɛsthest
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hestnoun
command, injunction
Etymology: alteration of hes from hæs. Akin to hātan "to command". More at hight
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Hestnoun
Command; precept; injunction.
Etymology: hæst, Saxon.
If thou be the most kind preserver
Of living wights, the sovereign lord of all,
How falls it then, that, with thy furious fervour,
Thou dost afflict the not deserver,
As him that doth thy lovely hests despise. Edmund Spenser.Thou wast a spirit too delicate
To act her earthy and abhorr’d commands,
Refusing her grand hests. William Shakespeare, Tempest.
Webster Dictionary
Hestnoun
command; precept; injunction
Etymology: [AS. hs, fr. htan to call, bid. See Hight, and cf. Behest.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Hest
hest, n. (Shak.) behest, command. [A.S. hǽs, a command—hátan, to command.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of HEST in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of HEST in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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