Crossword-Solution: BEHEST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Behest | n. | That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction. |
| Behest | n. | A vow; a promise. |
| Behest | v. t. | To vow. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| BEHEST | anagram | THEBES |
We have 33 clues for the answer “BEHEST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| order or earnest request | 1 answer |
| Urgent prompting | 1 answer |
| Urgent bidding | 1 answer |
| Earnest order | 1 answer |
| Command with teeth | 1 answer |
| Apt rhyme for "request" | 1 answer |
| Anagram of Thebes | 1 answer |
| An order. | 1 answer |
| Insistent request | 2 answers |
| Strong request | 3 answers |
| An authoritative command | 3 answers |
| Say-so | 5 answers |
| Urgent request | 6 answers |
| Authoritative command | 6 answers |
| earnest request | 9 answers |
| Insistence | 9 answers |
| BEGIN BIDDING | 10 answers |
| authoritative order | 12 answers |
| Mandate | 22 answers |
| Bidding | 30 answers |
| injunction | 32 answers |
| dictate | 41 answers |
| Directive | 44 answers |
| Request | 54 answers |
| urging | 59 answers |
| Demand | 65 answers |
| Propose | 69 answers |
| Edict | 71 answers |
| DIRECTION ___ | 74 answers |
| Decree | 78 answers |
| will | 87 answers |
| Command! | 100 answers |
| Order | 125 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
REAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with BEHEST (5)
Haste hither _Eve_, and worth thy sight behold Eastward among those Trees, what glorious shape Comes this way moving; seems another Morn Ris’n on mid-noon; som great behest from Heav’n To us perhaps he brings, and will voutsafe This day to be our Guest.
But it is an error to suppose that our great forefathers—though accustomed to speak and think of human existence as a state merely of trial and warfare, and though unfeignedly prepared to sacrifice goods and life at the behest of duty—made it a matter of conscience to reject such means of comfort, or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp.
Bethink thee, child, there are they that love thee in Upmeads and thereabout, were it but thy gossip, my wife, dame Katherine." Said Ralph: "Master Clement, I thank thee for all that thou hast said, and thy behest, and thy deeds.
Therewithal at my behest Shall Lyctian Aegon and Damoetas sing, And Alphesiboeus emulate in dance The dancing Satyrs.
But when no trickery found a path for flight, Baffled at length, to his own shape returned, With human lips he spake, "Who bade thee, then, So reckless in youth's hardihood, affront Our portals? or what wouldst thou hence?"- But he, "Proteus, thou knowest, of thine own heart thou knowest; For thee there is no cheating, but cease thou To practise upon me: at heaven's behest I for my fainting fortunes hither come An oracle to ask thee." There he ceased.
Quotes with BEHEST (3)
A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest--at the command--of his head.
Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.
In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God did with those pagans who were visibly virtuous or saintly. Similarly, in contemporary society effort is not productive unless it is done at the behest of a boss, and economists have a hard time dealing with the obvious usefulness of people when they are outside the corporate control of a corporation, volunteer agency, or labour camp.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 56 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).