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Definition of Cleped
1. clepe [v] - See also: clepe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleped
Literary usage of Cleped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... that euche a loos That he was cleped of the sea Ht caught, all nere it worth
a strea, With hem, that so beleue amis. ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"There couch'd he, cover'd in with matted boughs, In likeness of the clear-voiced
mountain-bird, Of Gods cleped Chalcis, but of men the hawk. ..."
3. The Three Kings of Cologne: An Early English Translation of the "Historia by Joannes, Carl Horstmann (1886)
"... cut out of a slice of bread, in a dish of gold or surer, and cover it with a
sUr and a white Also fer is an oj>ir secte fe wich be cleped Indy : and fes ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... of Latin Verses into English by Dan John Lyd- gate cleped the Monk of Bury
The Flower and the Leaf 394 Chaucer's ABC called 1л Prière de Nostre Dame '. ..."
5. Confessio Amantis of John Gower by John Gower, Reinhold Pauli (1857)
"Thilke ile cleped was Delos, In which Diana was forth brought And kept fo, that
her lacketh nought. And after whan me was of age, She toke none hede of ..."
6. Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt; Or, Remorse of Conscience: In the Kentish by Laurent, Dan Michel (1866)
"... is a vice / bet is y-cleped / ine clergie : or ingratitude is ingratitude /
bet is ... cleped ..."
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