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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Other there be that men clepe Christian men of Girding, for they be all girt above.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
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 Sir John Mandeville
Upon that hill dwelt Abraham a great while, and therefore men clepe it Abraham’s Garden.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
Also in that country there be beasts taught of men to go into waters, into rivers and into deep stanks for to take fish; the which beast is but little, and men clepe them loirs.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
For there appear no stars, but only one clear star that men clepe Canapos.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
Wherof to kepe hireself in pes, With suche as Amadriades Were cleped, wodemaydes, tho, And with the Nimphes ek also Upon the spring of freisshe welles Sche schop to duelle and nagher elles.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
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
A Serpent, which that Aspidis Is cleped, of his kynde hath this, That he the Ston noblest of alle, The which that men Carbuncle calle, Berth in his hed above on heihte.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
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 Sir John Mandeville
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
Fro Artyroun go men to an Hille, that is clept Sabisocolle.
From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. Boettiger
But men see another star, the contrary to him, that is toward the south, that is clept Antartic.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
And after men go to Sichem, some-time clept Sichar; and that is in the province of Samaritans.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
And his eldest son was clept Tossue; and when he shall be emperor, he shall be clept Tossue-Chan.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
From this land men go to another isle that is clept Silha.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
Account for the second -r in forlorn; and for the y in ycleped.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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 Herman Melville
Still one had pleasure in going over it, and peeping into the little book-room, ycleped the "Poet's Den," from which so much true poetry had issued to delight and amuse mankind.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 356, February 14, 1829 by Various
I have sent Murray a new tragedy, ycleped 'Sardanapalus,' writ according to Aristotle—all, save the chorus—could not reconcile me to that.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
Eftsoons he spake, the Good Knight drew His visor down, and waving to Sir Thompson fond farewell, He leapt upon his courser fleet And crossed the drawbridge to the street Which was ycleped La Salle.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Slason Thompson
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
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
True, if the like had happened to herself—say some thirty or forty years ago—she'd want all the world to hear of it, particularly that part of the world yclept Cheltenham.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
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