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”
Example Sentences
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And albeit that men clepe it a sea, yet is it neither sea ne arm of the sea.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
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 Pursevauntes and Heraudes That crien riche folkes laudes, It weren, all and every man Of hem, as I you tellen can, Had on him throwe a vesture Which men clepe a coate armure.
From Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
And the principal gates of his palace be of precious stone that men clepe sardonyx, and the border and the bars be of ivory.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
And a fifty-two journeys from this land that I have spoken of, there is another land, that is full great, that men clepe Lamary.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
Thanne comth the sinne of worldly sorwe, swich as is cleped tristicia, that sleeth man, as seint Paul seith.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
Ther was also a Nonne, a Prioresse, That of her smyling was ful simple and coy; Hir grettest ooth was ne but by sëynt Loy; And she was cleped madame Eglentyne.
From Medieval People by Power, Eileen Edna
In 495 "came twain aldermen to Britain, Cerdic and Cynric his son, with five ships, at that place that is cleped Cerdices ora, and fought that ilk day with the Welsh."
From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Allen, Grant
The vice lik unto the fend, Which nevere yit was mannes frend, And cleped is Unkindeschipe, Of covine and of felaschipe With Avarice he is withholde.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
In the heved of this for-seide Capricorne is the grettest declinacioun southward of the sonne, and ther-for is it cleped the Solsticioun of Winter.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.
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 Mandeville, John, Sir
The second lineage is clept Tanghot, the third Eurache, the fourth Valair, the fifth Semoche, the sixth Megly, the seventh Coboghe.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
After this isle men go by sea to another isle that is clept Calonak.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
And in the tombe of Seynt John is noughte but manna, that is clept Aungeles mete.
From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Why that is what I clept them ere I knew them: and you withstood me.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
That gentleman, Lisardo, is Hortensius; who, you see is in close conversation with an intimate friend and fellow-bibliomaniac—that ycleped is Ulpian.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Among many entertaining, narrations, old Braid-Beard, crossing his calves, and peaking his beard, regaled us with some account of certain invisible spirits, ycleped the Plujii, arrant little knaves as ever gulped moonshine.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman
He may also ring as many peals as it pleaseth him, upon discovering that he possesses all the copies of a dramatic author, ycleped George Peele, that are notified at nos. 923-4!
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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 Edgeworth, Maria
Now for the ground which; which, I mean, I upon; it is ycleped thy park.
From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
A tenured Pat, my name’s Tom Brady; Foes have oft yclept me shady.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2020
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
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
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
THE gentlemen of our party go one day to visit the Jesuit College in Havana, yclept "Universidad de Belen."
From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward
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