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 in that isle dwelleth the pope of their law, that they clepe Lobassy. 

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

And of the four Floods that come from Paradise Terrestrial Toward the east part of Prester John’s land is an isle good and great, that men clepe Taprobane, that is full noble and full fructuous. 

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

And a five mile from that city, toward the head of the river of Dalay, is another city that men clepe Menke. 

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

And there beside is another hill that men clepe Ararat, but the Jews clepe it Taneez, where Noah’s ship rested, and yet is upon that mountain. 

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