yclept
Americanverb
verb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of yclept
First recorded before 1000; Middle English ycleped, Old English geclypod, past participle of clypian, cleopian “to name, call”; see clepe
Example Sentences
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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
But as the smoke gradually cleared away, the stalwart figure of the Commander-in-Chief, yclept Druriolanus himself, was seen bowing his acknowledgments.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 by Various
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