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 now men clepe that city, the Gate of Hell.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
And some men clepe it the Vale Enchanted, some clepe it the Vale of Devils, and some clepe it the Vale Perilous.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
There dwell Saracens and another manner of folk, that men clepe Cordynes.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
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 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
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
This signe of Capricorne is also cleped the Tropik of Winter, for thanne byginneth the sonne to come agayn to us-ward.”
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm
For “He cleped yt valerye and theophraste,” you saye some wolde haue vs reade “Valery and his Paraphraste.”
From Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes 1865 edition by G. H. (George Henry) Kingsley
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 G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
Ay, in the catalogue, ye go for men; As hounds, and grey-hounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demy-wolves are cleped All by the name of dogs.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson
And in coming down from the mount of Olivet, toward the east, is a castle that is clept Bethany.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
From that country men go by the sea ocean by an isle that is clept Caffolos.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
And she was thus changed and transformed from a fair damsel in the likeness of a dragon by a goddess that was clept Diana.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Fro Artyroun go men to an Hille, that is clept Sabisocolle.
From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. Boettiger
Some of these be clept Jacobites, for Saint James converted them and Saint John baptized them.
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 Leonora by Maria Edgeworth
A huge vehicle, ycleped the ark of Noah, closed the procession.
From The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper
Adj. named &c. v.; hight†, ycleped, known as; what one may well, call fairly, call properly, call fitly. nuncupatory†, nuncupative; cognominal†, titular, nominal, orismological†.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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
King Henrie in the meane while subdued certeine rebels in Gascoine, and returning into Normandie, built a goodlie towne and fortresse neere to Haie de Malafrey, ycleped Beauver.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second by Raphael Holinshed
A tenured Pat, my name’s Tom Brady; Foes have oft yclept me shady.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2020
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
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
A speaker quoted these lines: O, come, thou goddess fair and free, In heaven yclept Euphrosyne.
From Cupology How to Be Entertaining by Clara
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