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 then he made many statutes and ordinances that they clepe Ysya Chan. 

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

And it casteth out of the water a thing that men clepe asphalt, also great pieces, as the greatness of an horse, every day and on all sides. 

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

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 Mandeville, John, Sir

And when a man cometh out of that desert, he entereth into Egypt, that men clepe Egypt-Canopac, and after other language, men clepe it Morsyn. 

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