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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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The "liquor" that forms the by-products of digestion By secret wayes, that none might it espy, Was close conuaid, and to the back-gate brought, That cleped was Port Esquiline, whereby It was auoided quite, and throwne out priuily.
The backward voice of Coriol-anus by Hunt, Maurice / Shakespeare Studies
14b) It is comuneliche cleped rodol and is ful of fatnesse and of glandulouse flesche, pe whiche schal see departed fro pe intestines.
ME -Lich(e)l-ly. (1) by Ciszek, Ewa / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
The Shirleian introduction to 'Fifteen Joys' reads; 'Lo my lordes and ladyes, here begynnen the fyfftene joyes of oure Lady, cleped the xv Ooes, translated out of Frenshe into Englisshe by daun John the Monke of Bury at th'instance of the worshipfull Pryncesse Isabelle, nowe Countasse of Warre lady Despenser.
John Shirley's Heirs by Mooney, Linne R. / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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