clepe
[kleep]
- to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).
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Origin of clepe
before 900; Middle English clepen, Old English cleopian, variant of clipian; akin to Middle Low German kleperen to rattle
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And then he made many statutes and ordinances that they clepe Ysya Chan.
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And there be many popinjays, that they clepe psittakes their language.
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But that is not that east that we clepe our east, on this half, where the sun riseth to us.
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And in that isle dwelleth the pope of their law, that they clepe Lobassy.
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For schal I clepe it a felonie an or a synne at I haue desired e sauuacioun of e ordre of e senat.
clepe
- (tr) archaic to call by the name of
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Word Origin
Old English cleopian; related to Middle Low German kleperen to rattle
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Word Origin and History for clepe
v.
"to call; to name" (archaic), from Old English cleopian, clipian "to speak, call; summon, invoke; implore."
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