clepe
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verb (used with object), cleped or clept (also y·cleped or y·clept ), clep·ing. Archaic.
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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clepe
/ (kliːp) /
verb clepes, cleping, cleped (kliːpt, klɛpt), clept, ycleped or yclept
(tr) archaic to call by the name of
Word Origin for clepe
Old English cleopian; related to Middle Low German kleperen to rattle
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Word Origin and History for clepe
clepe
"to call; to name" (archaic), from Old English cleopian, clipian "to speak, call; summon, invoke; implore."
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