yclept
verb
a past participle of clepe.
Example Sentences
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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 Delia Bacon
But the doctress would not go without her Wolf's-bane, Aconite ycleped.
From A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
Come thou goddess, fair and free, In Heaven ycleped Euphroysine, And by men, heart-easing Mirth.
From Dorothy's Tour by Evelyn Raymond
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
