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Named, in olden days
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ycleped
Word definitions for ycleped in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ycleped \Y*cleped"\, p. p. [AS. geclipod, p. p. of clipian, cleopian, cliopian, to call. See Clepe , and also the Note under Y- .] Called; named; -- obsolete, except in archaic or humorous writings. [Spelt also yclept .] It is full fair to ben yclept madame. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of yclept dot=: English) called, named
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
See clepe
Usage examples of ycleped.
I had half a mind to send for a Miss Harris there is here, to learn the most approved fashion of a lady preferring a suit, but as fame said she was just now practising on a certain hero ycleped Captain Jarvis, heir to Sir Timo of that name, it struck me her system might be rather too abrupt, so I was fain to adopt the best plan--that of trusting to nature and my own feelings for words.
You, gentle Reader, just entering upon the prime of life, that age by thoughtless youth called middle, I cannot, of course, expect to follow me--when there was in great demand a certain periodical ycleped The Amateur.
If he affects a modest sneaking posture, and humbly implores their high mightinesses to grant him one poor sprig of laurel, he is treated slightingly, and despised, as a pitiful fellow who wants that essential ingredient in the composition of a man of talent and good breeding, ycleped by the moderns confidence.
It is ful fair to been ycleped `ma Dame,' And goon to vigilies al bifore, And have a mantel roialliche ybore.