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

For there appear no stars, but only one clear star that men clepe Canapos. 

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

And between the hills of that country there is a well that four sithes in the year changeth his colour, sometime green, sometime red, sometime clear and sometime trouble; and men clepe that well, Job. 

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

And it casteth out of the water a thing that men clepe asphalt, also great pieces, as the greatness of an horse, every day and on all sides. 

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

There dwell Saracens and another manner of folk, that men clepe Cordynes. 

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