clepe
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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”
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And then he made many statutes and ordinances that they clepe Ysya Chan.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
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 Sir John Mandeville
This city sits upon a fair river, great and broad, that men clepe Caramaron.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
Afterward men go by many isles by sea unto an isle that men clepe Milke.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
I will render vnto you none other certificate of myne innocency, but my languishinge heart, which you clepe betweene your hands, feling sutch rude intertaynment there, of whom he loaked for reioyse of his trauayles.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
And the hill above Zoar men cleped it then Edom and after men cleped it Seir, and after Idumea.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
Speculum Vite Christi, the Booke that is cleped the Myrroure of the blessed Lyf of Jhesu Cryste, emprynted by Caxton, fol., no date, fine copy in morocco.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
The stranger bids him follow him to another place, and leads him to An hous, that domus Dedali, That Laborintus cleped is.
From Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. Hadow
And ther-for is he cleped the Solsticioun of Somer; whiche declinacioun, aftur Ptholome, is 23 degrees and 50 minutes, as wel in Cancer as in Capricorne.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm
Chaucer writes, “This noble king was cleped Cambinskan.”
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
After this isle men go by sea to another isle that is clept Calonak.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
And this Cham, for his cruelty, took the greater and the best part, toward the east, that is clept Asia, and Shem took Africa, and Japhet took Europe.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
Now shall ye know, that against the Transmontane is the tother star that is clept Antarctic, as I have said before.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
And all the men and women of that isle have hounds’ heads, and they be clept Cynocephales.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
After that isle men go by the sea ocean, by many isles, unto an isle that is clept Nacumera, that is a great isle and good and fair.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
I must observe more accurately; I must decide whether this angelic Leonora is, or is not susceptible of the mortal passion ycleped jealousy.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 08 by Maria Edgeworth
‘Wete ye not wher stondeth a litel toun, Which that ycleped is Bob up-and-doun, Under the blee in Canterbury way?’
From A Canterbury Pilgrimage by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
It came in the form of an old beggar, ycleped Patie Maxwell, a well-known, and generally a welcome guest, over all that district.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
In other words, this is the day on which those charming little missives, ycleped Valentines, cross and intercross each other at every street and turning.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Rhizotome, with the soft coat of a field tortoise, alias ycleped a mole, was making himself a velvet purse.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
A tenured Pat, my name’s Tom Brady; Foes have oft yclept me shady.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2020
His secretary, yclept Lemoyne Jones in the effete East, became plain Lem Jones as soon as he was west of the mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
From this they are rescued by an extraordinary swami-plus-demigod, yclept King Laions, who removes them to the island of Telepylus—a sort of Marie Correllian Abbey of Theleme—where they are finally made to cure themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
First comith that pritty knight Sir Robert, the Taylor yclept, and feigneth to bee Launcelot, and then harde after hym ye yongge esquirt Robert a Wagner, yt callith himselfe Prince Valiant.
From Time Magazine Archive
This rustic place was originally the village ale house, yclept "The Horse Shoe."
From The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time by Robert Charles Tombs
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