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 they clepe the God of kind Yroga.

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

Some men clepe that sea the lake Dalfetidee; some, the flome of Devils; and some the flome that is ever stinking. 

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

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

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

And they drink gladliest man’s blood, the which they clepe Dieu. 

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