clept
Americanverb
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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
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 Charles Reade
Of the which, the first nation or lineage was clept Tartar, and that is the most noble and the most prized.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
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 fast beside is another isle, that is clept Betemga, that is a good isle and a plenteous.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
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