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clepe

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clepe  (klp)
tr.v. cleped (klpt, klpt), cleped or clept (klpt) or y·clept (-klpt) or y·cleped (-klpt, -klpt), clep·ing, clepes Archaic
To call; name.
[Middle English clepen, from Old English cleopian, to cry out.]
clepe [kliːp]
vb clepes, cleping ; cleped [kliːpt klɛpt] clept, ycleped, yclept
(tr) Archaic to call by the name of
[Old English cleopian; related to Middle Low German kleperen to rattle]
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Chapter one is prefaced with a quotation from Hamlet (Act 1 Sc 4) with the gloomy prince lamenting the King's wassail: This heavy headed revel east and west Makes us traduc'd and tax'd of other nations; That clepe us drunkards and with swinish phrase Soil our addition; and indeed it takes From our achievements, though performed at height The pith and marrow of our attribute As a counter point Psalm 104: 14-15 praising wine 'that maketh glad the heart of man' heads the chapter.
A note in the margins: reading with Redmond Barry by Carmody, Shane / The La Trobe Journal
This see clepe I the tempestuous matere Of disespeir that Troilus was inne.
'But algates therby was she understonde': translating Custance in ... by Cooper, Christine F. / Yearbook of English Studies
This is also suggested by the following marginal gloss: (7) the heritage is to seyn the doctryne of the whiche Socrates in his opynyoun of felicite, that I clepe [= 'call'] welefulnesse (Chaucer Bk I pr.
In search of happiness: felicitas and beatitudo in Early English ... by Rissanen, Matti / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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