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 men clepe that isle the Isle of Bragman, and some men clepe it the Land of Faith.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
Upon that hill dwelt Abraham a great while, and therefore men clepe it Abraham’s Garden.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
For there appear no stars, but only one clear star that men clepe Canapos.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
And for the name of the isle, they clepe it Tracodon.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
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
Here begynneth a lyttell Treatise cleped La Conusauce D'Amours. imp. by Pynson.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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 Hadow, Grace E.
And they set him in a chair of gold and did him all manner of reverence, and they cleped him Chan, as the white knight called him.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
Of which men schulden gladly herken and enquere with al here herte, to wyte, what is penitence, and whens is cleped penitence?
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney
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.
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
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)
The213 priests of that temple have all their writings under the date of the fowl that is clept Phœnix; and there is none but one in all the world.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
Fro Artyroun go men to an Hille, that is clept Sabisocolle.
From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Boettiger, Louis A.
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
Come thou goddess, fair and free, In Heaven ycleped Euphroysine, And by men, heart-easing Mirth.
From Dorothy's Tour by Raymond, Evelyn
Mexico is a fine field for the scientific explorer; its paths hitherto but little trodden by the naturalist, because unsafe from being so much frequented by the “Knights of the Road,” ycleped salteadores.
From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Reid, Elizabeth
Let me next make honourable mention of a "par nobile fratrum" that ycleped are North.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
In one of the most active working bees we recognise a cadie, formerly in Auld Reekie ycleped "The Despatch," now retired to the Braes of Balquhidder, and breathing strongly the spirit of his youth.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
Now for the ground which; which I mean I walked upon: it is ycleped thy park.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia
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
Laidlaw, on a long-tailed wiry Highlander, yclept Hoddin Grey, which carried him nimbly and stoutly, although his feet almost touched the ground as he sat, was the adjutant.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
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