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 then the king wetteth his hands there, in that they clepe gall, and anointeth his front and his breast. 

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

For men sell a gum, that men clepe turpentine, instead of balm, and they put thereto a little balm for to give good odour. 

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

And Pursevauntes and Heraudes That crien riche folkes laudes, It weren, all and every man Of hem, as I you tellen can, Had on him throwe a vesture Which men clepe a coate armure.

From Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Some men clepe that sea the lake Dalfetidee; some, the flome of Devils; and some the flome that is ever stinking. 

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

But the two principal cities be these, Boyturra, and Seornergant, that some men clepe Sormagant. 

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