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

And now men clepe that city, the Gate of Hell.

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

And men clepe that one Orille, and that other Argyte, of the which all the land is mine of gold and silver. 

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

And men clepe that isle the Isle of Bragman, and some men clepe it the Land of Faith. 

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

And a five mile from that city, toward the head of the river of Dalay, is another city that men clepe Menke. 

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