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yclept, ycleped, pa. pple. arch.
|ɪˈklɛpt|, (ɪˈkliːpt, poet. ɪˈkliːpɪd)
Forms: 1 ᵹeclypod, Northumb. ᵹicliop(p)ad, 2 ȝecleped, iclipet, 2–3 iclepet, i-, ycluped, 4 yclepud, 4–5 icleped, yclepid, 5 iclepyd, 6 iclipped, iclipt, ycliped, ycclipped, ycleapt, -ed, Sc. yclepit, 6–7 yclipt, 7 i-, ycleeped, ycleep'd, ycleap'd, yclipped, ecleaped, eclip't, 8 yclyped, 4– ycleped (7–9 yclep'd), 8– yclept.
[OE. ᵹeclypod, pa. pple. of (ᵹe)clypian, (ᵹe)clipian clepe, yclepe: see y- 4. Adopted by Gawin Douglas from his ME. models, and much affected as a literary archaism by Elizabethan and subsequent poets; in less dignified writing often used for the sake of quaintness or with serio-comic intention.]
Called (so-and-so), named, styled.
c950Durham Ritual (Surtees) 60 Dignus vocari apostolus, wyrðe þætte ic se ᵹicliopad erendwraca. c1100O.E. Chron. an. 1057 (MS. D.) [Eadmund] Irensid wæs ᵹeclypod for his snellscipe. c1175Lamb. Hom. 9 Heo weren iclipet synagoge al swa is nu iclepet al cristen folc. c1200Vices & Virtues 7 Ðurh ane oðre senne þe is ȝecleped inobediencia. c1230Hali Meid. 5 Syon was sum hwile iclepet þe hehe tur of Jerusalem. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 110 Al þis was ȝwile icluped [v.rr. ycleped, icleped, clepud, callyde, callyd] þe march of walis. c1330Arth. & Merl. 5560 Her ost was ycleped Blaire. 1340Ayenb. 18 A vice þet is y-cleped ine clergie ingratitude. c1350Will. Palerne 121 & braunde was þat bold quene of burnes y-clepud. c1430Two Cookery-bks. 43 Make round-lyke Fretourys..þat ben y-clepid Ragons. c1440Stac. Rome 674 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 166 A lytylle chapelle yeet there is, I-clepyd ‘titulus pastoris’. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. iii. (1555) C j b, They pyped a daunce Iclipped, amour de la hault plesaunce. 1513Douglas æneis iii. ii. 23 The king thairof yclepit Anyus. 1581Howell Deuises (1879) 244 By name yclipt Endimion. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 242 Now for the ground Which? which I meane I walkt vpon, it is ycliped, Thy Parke. 1592Soliman & Pers. v. iii. 74 That fraudfull squire of Ithaca, iclipt Vlisses. 1598Tofte Alba iii. G v, Loves Labor Lost, I once did see a Play, Ycleped so. 1611Cotgr., Nommé..named, called, cleaped, ecleaped. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle ii. (1871) 22 The dredfull beast, yclepèd crocodile. 1632Milton L'Allegro 12 But com thou Goddes fair and free, In Heav'n ycleap'd Euphrosyne. 1638Heywood Wise Wom. ii. i, Seuc. Is thy name Taber? Tab. I am so eclip't Sir. 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 904 A valiant Mamaluke, In Foreign Land yclep'd (Sir Samuel Luke). 1664Ibid. ii. i. 46 A tall long-sided dame (But wondrous light) ycleped Fame. 1717Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess of Bristol 1 Apr., Attending damsels yclep'd maids of honour. a1764Lloyd Poetry Prof. Wks. 1774 I. 31 Tho' not one wit bestrides the back Of useful drudge, ycleped hack. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Praise of Chimney-Sweepers, The sweet wood yclept sassafras. 1849C. Brontë Shirley xi, The old and tenantless dwelling yclept Fieldhead. 1877Gladstone Glean. (1879) I. 169 It is yclept ‘redistribution of seats’. 1900Westm. Gaz. 23 Feb. 9/1 The Associated South London Extended Gold Mines Corporation, Limited, yclept in the market Suds.
⁋irreg. predicated of the name.1653J. Taylor (Water P.) Cert. Trav. Uncert. Journ. 17 The name of Wheat ears, on them is ycleap'd, Because they come when wheat is yeerly reap'd. |