clepe
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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
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And some men clepe it the Vale Enchanted, some clepe it the Vale of Devils, and some clepe it the Vale Perilous.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
From thence men go by sea toward Ind the more to a city, that men clepe Sarche, that is a fair city and a good.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
I will render vnto you none other certificate of myne innocency, but my languishinge heart, which you clepe betweene your hands, feling sutch rude intertaynment there, of whom he loaked for reioyse of his trauayles.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
And a fifty-two journeys from this land that I have spoken of, there is another land, that is full great, that men clepe Lamary.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
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 Sir John Mandeville
Wherof to kepe hireself in pes, With suche as Amadriades Were cleped, wodemaydes, tho, And with the Nimphes ek also Upon the spring of freisshe welles Sche schop to duelle and nagher elles.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
Arviragus and Dorigene live in wedded happiness, until the former, leaving his wife, takes shipping —— "to gon and dwelle a yere or twaine In Englelond, that cleped was eke Bretaigne."
From Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
Ay, in the catalogue, ye go for men; As hounds, and grey-hounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demy-wolves are cleped All by the name of dogs.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson
This signe of Cancre is cleped the Tropik of Somer, of tropos, that is to seyn ‘agaynward’; for thanne by-ginneth the sonne to passe fro us-ward.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm
And the hill above Zoar men cleped it then Edom and after men cleped it Seir, and after Idumea.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
And of the Monks that gave their relief to baboons, apes, and marmosets, and to other beasts From that isle, in going by sea toward the south, is another great isle that is clept Dondun.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
From Constantynoble he that will go by water goeth to an isle that is clept Sylo, and then to the isle of Patmos.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
And all the men and women of that isle have hounds’ heads, and they be clept Cynocephales.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
And in that church is a well, in manner of a cistern, that is clept Probatica Piscina, that hath five entries.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
Why that is what I clept them ere I knew them: and you withstood me.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
Mexico is a fine field for the scientific explorer; its paths hitherto but little trodden by the naturalist, because unsafe from being so much frequented by the “Knights of the Road,” ycleped salteadores.
From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Elizabeth Reid
Upon a winged Horse, ycleped Pegasus, Swift as the fiery Racers of the Sun,—I fly—I fly—See how I mount, and cut the liquid Sky.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers
You may actually get there thread made of flax, from the gouty, uneven, clumsy, shiny fabric, ycleped whited-brown, to the delicate commodity of Lisle, used for darning muslin.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number by Various
That gentleman, Lisardo, is Hortensius; who, you see is in close conversation with an intimate friend and fellow-bibliomaniac—that ycleped is Ulpian.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Among many entertaining, narrations, old Braid-Beard, crossing his calves, and peaking his beard, regaled us with some account of certain invisible spirits, ycleped the Plujii, arrant little knaves as ever gulped moonshine.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
A tenured Pat, my name’s Tom Brady; Foes have oft yclept me shady.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2020
First comith that pritty knight Sir Robert, the Taylor yclept, and feigneth to bee Launcelot, and then harde after hym ye yongge esquirt Robert a Wagner, yt callith himselfe Prince Valiant.
From Time Magazine Archive
His secretary, yclept Lemoyne Jones in the effete East, became plain Lem Jones as soon as he was west of the mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
From this they are rescued by an extraordinary swami-plus-demigod, yclept King Laions, who removes them to the island of Telepylus—a sort of Marie Correllian Abbey of Theleme—where they are finally made to cure themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
His magnum opus appears to have been his Miscellany; a farrago of prose and verse, which, to distinguish it from the herd of books bearing that title, is yclept, par excellence, Brett's Miscellany.
From Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
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