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 there be also urchins, as great as wild swine here; we clepe them Porcz de Spine.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
Other there be that men clepe Christian men of Girding, for they be all girt above.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
And men clepe that isle the Isle of Bragman, and some men clepe it the Land of Faith.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
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 Mandeville, John, Sir
And now men clepe that city, the Gate of Hell.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
Nou have I of this nyhtingale, Which erst was cleped Philomene, Told al that evere I wolde mene, 6000 Bothe of hir forme and of hir note, Wherof men mai the storie note.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
The plate under thy rite is descryved with 3 principal cercles; of whiche the leste is cleped the cercle of Cancer, by-cause that the heved of Cancer turneth evermor consentrik up-on the same cercle.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.
Thanne comth the sinne of worldly sorwe, swich as is cleped tristicia, that sleeth man, as seint Paul seith.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
The wydeste of thise three principal cercles is cleped the Cercle of Capricorne, by-cause that the heved of Capricorne turneth evermo consentrix up-on the same cercle.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.
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 Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
The second lineage is clept Tanghot, the third Eurache, the fourth Valair, the fifth Semoche, the sixth Megly, the seventh Coboghe.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
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 Mandeville, John, Sir
And in the tombe of Seynt John is noughte but manna, that is clept Aungeles mete.
From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
And so evere more sittiens, he is clept Prestre John.”
From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
But men see another star, the contrary to him, that is toward the south, that is clept Antartic.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
I must observe more accurately; I must decide whether this angelic Leonora is or is not susceptible of the mortal passion ycleped jealousy.
From Leonora by Edgeworth, Maria
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 Roget, Peter Mark
Admiral Smyth concludes that Maskelyne "was not quite what is now ycleped a teetotaler."
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Newcomb, Simon
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 Summers, Montague
I have sent Murray a new tragedy, ycleped 'Sardanapalus,' writ according to Aristotle—all, save the chorus—could not reconcile me to that.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
A tenured Pat, my name’s Tom Brady; Foes have oft yclept me shady.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2020
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
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
True, if the like had happened to herself—say some thirty or forty years ago—she'd want all the world to hear of it, particularly that part of the world yclept Cheltenham.
From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne
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