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- past participle Called; named; -- obsolete, except in archaic or humorous writings.
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- verb Alternative spelling of
yclept :called ,named
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Examples
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Rhizotome, with the soft coat of a field tortoise, alias ycleped
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Rhizotome, with the soft coat of a field tortoise, alias ycleped
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Rhizotome, with the soft coat of a field tortoise, alias ycleped a mole, was making himself a velvet purse.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Before the door of Saunders Jaup, a feuar of some importance, “who held his land free, and caredna a bodle for any one,” yawned that odoriferous gulf, ycleped, in Scottish phrase, the jawhole; in other words, an uncovered common sewer.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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But an oblong bit of iron, ycleped a bolt, was passed across the door on the inside, and prevented her benign intentions.
The Abbot 2008
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Brave knight, with pipes on shield, ycleped Vernon
Rob Roy 2005
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The last remarkable corruption is in the introduction of a curious piece of stage-machinery, ycleped a confidant, who, loving her mistress more than herself, like a good servant, accompanies her through wind and rain, and every other stage-horror, in a dark night, on a wild-goose chase, without any adequate or apparent object.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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Scotland, all printed by Pynson, as well as that mysterious volume ycleped 'The Nigramansir,' said to be by John Skelton the poet-laureate who lived under five kings and died in 1529.
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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Also, this heading will comprise that great series of mysterious and 'racy' books ycleped 'Court Memoirs,' and the somewhat less exciting but -- to our book-hunter's mind at least -- more interesting works which border on the domain of history, such as the
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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In the light of this law, _were any one mad enough to grope_, he might come to the conclusion that the first man (or race of men) was anything but a grandee in mind, person, or estate; and that our seemingly puzzled but at last most wonder-working mother, ycleped
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
minerva commented on the word ycleped
See yclept.
January 4, 2008
minerva commented on the word ycleped
One pretty little fellow called Wyerley, perhaps;
another jiggeting rascal called Biron, a third simpering varlet of the name of Symmes, and a more hideous villain than any of the rest, with a long bag under his arm, and parchment settlements tagged to his heels, ycleped Solmes...
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
January 4, 2008