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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This city sits upon a fair river, great and broad, that men clepe Caramaron.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
In that lake grow reeds, that be canes, that they clepe Thaby, that be thirty fathoms long; and of these canes men make fair houses.
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
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
And this star that is toward the north, that we clepe the Lode-star, ne appeareth not to them.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
The thridde point of Theorique, Which cleped is Mathematique, Devided is in sondri wise And stant upon diverse aprise.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
This faire Maiden cleped is Criseide, douhter of Crisis, Which was that time in special Of thilke temple principal, Wher Phebus hadde his sacrifice, So was it wel the more vice.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
A Serpent, which that Aspidis Is cleped, of his kynde hath this, That he the Ston noblest of alle, The which that men Carbuncle calle, Berth in his hed above on heihte.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
Of which men schulden gladly herken and enquere with al here herte, to wyte, what is penitence, and whens is cleped penitence?
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
Ther was also a Nonne, a Prioresse, That of her smyling was ful simple and coy; Hir grettest ooth was ne but by sëynt Loy; And she was cleped madame Eglentyne.
From Medieval People by Eileen Edna Power
Another trux made in the yere of Crist Ml.cc.xiij., in a towne clept in Edward ijd.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
And when I was there, their emperor had to name Thiaut, so that he was clept Thiaut-Chan.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
And the best city of that country is clept Khorasan, and of that city beareth the country his name.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
Fro Artyroun go men to an Hille, that is clept Sabisocolle.
From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. Boettiger
And thus have ye heard, why he is clept the great Chan.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
Now for the ground which; which I mean I walked upon: it is ycleped thy park.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon
Admiral Smyth concludes that Maskelyne "was not quite what is now ycleped a teetotaler."
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
Pleasant is even the yolk of the Cormorant—in the north of England ycleped the Scarth, and in the Lowlands of Scotland the Black Byuter.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
He may also ring as many peals as it pleaseth him, upon discovering that he possesses all the copies of a dramatic author, ycleped George Peele, that are notified at nos. 923-4!
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Adj. named &c. v.; hight†, ycleped, known as; what one may well, call fairly, call properly, call fitly. nuncupatory†, nuncupative; cognominal†, titular, nominal, orismological†.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
A tenured Pat, my name’s Tom Brady; Foes have oft yclept me shady.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2020
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
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
This "curiosity"—for it is hardly more—is reached by a cable-lift or funicular railway, which seems principally to be conducted for the delectation of those winter birds of passage yclept "Riviera tourists."
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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