Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit and past participle of clepe.
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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
clepe .
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Examples
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Incidentally, I don't know the meaning of Maundeville's statement "that is clept Aungeles Mete" in reference to the "manna" from St. John's tomb.
A travayle thorghe Turkye AYDIN 2007
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Incidentally, I don't know the meaning of Maundeville's statement "that is clept Aungeles Mete" in reference to the "manna" from St. John's tomb.
Archive 2007-11-01 AYDIN 2007
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For first they have taken an Yle that is clept Malta; and therein built they great castles, to hold it against them of
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That way cometh by Desert and Wildernesse, from the sea that is clept Caspian, even to Khiva, and so to Merv; and then come ye to
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Wherefore Englishmen putten no trust in them of Muscovy, save only the Englishmen clept Radicals, for they make as if they loved these
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Aftre that, is the kyngdom of George, that begynnethe toward the est; to the gret mountayne, that is clept Abzor; where that duellen many dyverse folk of dyverse naciouns.
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Temple there is a roche, that men clepen Moriache: but aftre it was clept Bethel; where the arke of God, with relykes of Jewes, weren wont to ben put.
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There ben othere, that ben clept Surienes; and thei holden the beleeve amonges us, and of hem of Grece.
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Lamary: and how the Erthe and the See ben of round Forme and schapp, be pref of the Sterre, that is clept Antartyk, that is fix in the Southe.
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Fro that cytee of Artyroun go men to an hille, that is clept Sabissocolle.
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