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

After, pass men overthwart a great river that men clepe Dalay. 

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 from Ptolemaïs, that men clepe now Akon, unto a great hill, that is clept Scale of Tyre, is one hundred furlongs. 

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

But yet there is a place that men clepe the school of God, where he was wont to teach his disciples, and told them the privities of heaven. 

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

At a coast of that sea, as men go from Arabia, is the mount of the Moabites, where there is a cave, that men clepe Karua. 

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