clepe

American  

[kleep] / klip /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

cleped, clept, ycleped, yclept, cleping

1. to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped oryclept ).

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clepe British  

/ kliːp /

verb

1. archaic (tr) to call by the name of

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Etymology

Origin of clepe

First recorded before 900; Middle English clepen, Old English cleopian, variant of clipian; akin to Middle Low German kleperen “to rattle”

Example Sentences

And between that river and the great sea Ocean, that they clepe the Sea Maure, lie all these realms. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

From that city go men by the country a six journeys to another city that men clepe Chilenfo, of the which city the walls be twenty mile about. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

But yet there is a place that men clepe the school of God, where he was wont to teach his disciples, and told them the privities of heaven. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

And from Ptolemaïs, that men clepe now Akon, unto a great hill, that is clept Scale of Tyre, is one hundred furlongs. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

And there be many popinjays, that they clepe psittakes their language. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir