#clepe

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clepe

verb

archaic past tense:

clept

; past participle:

clept

give (someone or something) a specified name."he was cleped Perkyn"

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Word of the Day: Clepe

Clepe (kleep)

Verb

1. Archaic. to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycelped or yclept)

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Clepe

Decades turn to centuries and soon my ghost will call your name a forgotten hope, outdated like my sense of trust. And you, an obsolete sound will roll off the tongues of distant writers on Mars.

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Word of the Day: Clepe

Clepe (kleep)

Verb

1. to call; name

Origin: derived from the Old English word cleopian which is related to the Middle Low German word kleperen meaning "to rattle". The odd iteraction of clepe is its past participle yclept which is its more common variant. The initial y is a vestige from Middle English.

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Clepe (v.)

to call; name

Note: Now chiefly used in past participle (ycleped/yclept)