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  1. hestnoun

    command, injunction

  2. Etymology: alteration of hes from hæs. Akin to hātan "to command". More at hight

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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

  1. Hestnoun

    command; precept; injunction

  2. Etymology: [AS. hs, fr. htan to call, bid. See Hight, and cf. Behest.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Hest

    hest, n. (Shak.) behest, command. [A.S. hǽs, a command—hátan, to command.]

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Anagrams for HEST »

  1. eths

  2. hets

  3. Seth

  4. shet

  5. tesh

  6. esth

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of HEST in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of HEST in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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