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Definition of Clept
1. clepe [v] - See also: clepe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clept
Literary usage of Clept
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in by John Mandeville, Willem van Ruysbroeck, Odorico (1905)
"FIRST I shall say you why he was clept the great Chan. These three brethren had
seisin in all the land. And this Cham, for his cruelty, took the greater and ..."
2. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Maundeville by John Mandeville, Jacques Wardlaw Redway (1898)
"CHAPTER XXI Wherefore he is clept the great Chan. Of the Style of his Letters;
and of the Superscription about his Great Seal and his Privy Seal FIRST I ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1812)
"... and of which a tolerably fair specimen may be deduced from the following puff
direct, y'clept: ' The Commentary on the Germany of Tacitus, ..."
4. The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt.: Which Treateth of the by John Mandeville, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1883)
"Wherefore he is clept the grete Chane. Of the Style of his Lettres, ... FIRST I
schalle seye zou, whi he was clept the gret Chane. ..."
5. Origins of the English People and the English Language by Jean Roemer (1888)
"... the grete.3* And that other is clept Eufrate, ... is clept Phison that is to
seyne in hire langage, Assemblee ; for manye othere ..."
6. English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray by Arthur Howard Galton (1888)
"And that other is clept Eufrate, ... is clept Phison, that is to seyne in hire
langage, Assemblee : For manye ..."
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