clepe

American  

[kleep] / klip /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

cleped, clept, ycleped, yclept, cleping

1. to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped oryclept ).

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clepe British  

/ kliːp /

verb

1. archaic (tr) to call by the name of

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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

From thence go men, by many towns and many cities, through the country, unto a city that men clepe Lanterine. 

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 they drink gladliest man’s blood, the which they clepe Dieu. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Beside the isle of Pentexoire, that is the land of Prester John, is a eat isle, long and broad, that men clepe Mistorak; and it is in the lordship of Prester John. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

But that is not that east that we clepe our east, on this half, where the sun riseth to us. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir