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

And now men clepe that city, the Gate of Hell.

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

And between the hills of that country there is a well that four sithes in the year changeth his colour, sometime green, sometime red, sometime clear and sometime trouble; and men clepe that well, Job. 

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

And they clepe the God of kind Yroga.

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

From thence go men, by many towns and many cities, through the country, unto a city that men clepe Lanterine. 

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

Beside the isle of Pentexoire, that is the land of Prester John, is a eat isle, long and broad, that men clepe Mistorak; and it is in the lordship of Prester John. 

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