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 they clepe the God of kind Yroga.
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
Also in that country there be beasts taught of men to go into waters, into rivers and into deep stanks for to take fish; the which beast is but little, and men clepe them loirs.
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
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
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
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
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 Florence M. Grimm
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
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
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
The213 priests of that temple have all their writings under the date of the fowl that is clept Phœnix; and there is none but one in all the world.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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
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
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
But the doctress would not go without her Wolf's-bane, Aconite ycleped.
From A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
Admiral Smyth concludes that Maskelyne "was not quite what is now ycleped a teetotaler."
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
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 Maria Edgeworth
Rhizotome, with the soft coat of a field tortoise, alias ycleped a mole, was making himself a velvet purse.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
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
Laidlaw, on a long-tailed wiry Highlander, yclept Hoddin Grey, which carried him nimbly and stoutly, although his feet almost touched the ground as he sat, was the adjutant.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
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