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”
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And they drink gladliest man’s blood, the which they clepe Dieu.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
And for the name of the isle, they clepe it Tracodon.
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 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
And then he made many statutes and ordinances that they clepe Ysya Chan.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
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 G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
Speculum Vite Christi, the Booke that is cleped the Myrroure of the blessed Lyf of Jhesu Cryste, emprynted by Caxton, fol., no date, fine copy in morocco.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
The ferste of whiche natheles Be name is cleped Aries, 980 Which lich a wether of stature Resembled is in his figure.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
And ther-for is he cleped the Solsticioun of Somer; whiche declinacioun, aftur Ptholome, is 23 degrees and 50 minutes, as wel in Cancer as in Capricorne.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm
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
Now shall ye know, that against the Transmontane is the tother star that is clept Antarctic, as I have said before.
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
And thus have ye heard, why he is clept the great Chan.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
From this land men go to another isle that is clept Silha.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
After that isle men go by the sea ocean, by many isles, unto an isle that is clept Nacumera, that is a great isle and good and fair.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
Come thou goddess, fair and free, In Heaven ycleped Euphroysine, And by men, heart-easing Mirth.
From Dorothy's Tour by Evelyn Raymond
Still one had pleasure in going over it, and peeping into the little book-room, ycleped the "Poet's Den," from which so much true poetry had issued to delight and amuse mankind.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 356, February 14, 1829 by Various
Account for the second -r in forlorn; and for the y in ycleped.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Let me next make honourable mention of a "par nobile fratrum" that ycleped are North.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
But the doctress would not go without her Wolf's-bane, Aconite ycleped.
From A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
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
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
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
Gentlemen," said Sir Benjamin, grasping silver ladle much as it had been a sceptre, "the Muses have departed but in their stead behold the jovial Bacchus with the attendant sprite yclept Virginia.
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol
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