yclept
verb
a past participle of clepe.
Example Sentences
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Mexico is a fine field for the scientific explorer; its paths hitherto but little trodden by the naturalist, because unsafe from being so much frequented by the “Knights of the Road,” ycleped salteadores.
From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Elizabeth Reid
We will next proceed to the mention of a shrewd scholar and bibliomaniac, and ever active voyager, ycleped Thomas Coryate, the Peregrine of Odcombe.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
That gentleman, Lisardo, is Hortensius; who, you see is in close conversation with an intimate friend and fellow-bibliomaniac—that ycleped is Ulpian.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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
Let me next make honourable mention of a "par nobile fratrum" that ycleped are North.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
