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.
| c 950 Durham Ritual (Surtees) 60 Dignus vocari apostolus, wyrðe þætte ic se ᵹicliopad erendwraca. c 1100 O.E. Chron. an. 1057 (MS. D.) [Eadmund] Irensid wæs ᵹeclypod for his snellscipe. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 9 Heo weren iclipet synagoge al swa is nu iclepet al cristen folc. c 1200 Vices & Virtues 7 Ðurh ane oðre senne þe is ȝecleped inobediencia. c 1230 Hali Meid. 5 Syon was sum hwile iclepet þe hehe tur of Jerusalem. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 110 Al þis was ȝwile icluped [v.rr. ycleped, icleped, clepud, callyde, callyd] þe march of walis. c 1330 Arth. & Merl. 5560 Her ost was ycleped Blaire. 1340 Ayenb. 18 A vice þet is y-cleped ine clergie ingratitude. c 1350 Will. Palerne 121 & braunde was þat bold quene of burnes y-clepud. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 43 Make round-lyke Fretourys..þat ben y-clepid Ragons. c 1440 Stac. Rome 674 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 166 A lytylle chapelle yeet there is, I-clepyd ‘titulus pastoris’. 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. iii. (1555) C j b, They pyped a daunce Iclipped, amour de la hault plesaunce. 1513 Douglas æneis iii. ii. 23 The king thairof yclepit Anyus. 1581 Howell Deuises (1879) 244 By name yclipt Endimion. 1588 Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 242 Now for the ground Which? which I meane I walkt vpon, it is ycliped, Thy Parke. 1592 Soliman & Pers. v. iii. 74 That fraudfull squire of Ithaca, iclipt Vlisses. 1598 Tofte Alba iii. G v, Loves Labor Lost, I once did see a Play, Ycleped so. 1611 Cotgr., Nommé..named, called, cleaped, ecleaped. 1616 R. C. Times' Whistle ii. (1871) 22 The dredfull beast, yclepèd crocodile. 1632 Milton L'Allegro 12 But com thou Goddes fair and free, In Heav'n ycleap'd Euphrosyne. 1638 Heywood Wise Wom. ii. i, Seuc. Is thy name Taber? Tab. I am so eclip't Sir. 1663 Butler Hud. i. i. 904 A valiant Mamaluke, In Foreign Land yclep'd (Sir Samuel Luke). 1664 Ibid. ii. i. 46 A tall long-sided dame (But wondrous light) ycleped Fame. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess of Bristol 1 Apr., Attending damsels yclep'd maids of honour. a 1764 Lloyd Poetry Prof. Wks. 1774 I. 31 Tho' not one wit bestrides the back Of useful drudge, ycleped hack. 1822 Lamb Elia Ser. i. Praise of Chimney-Sweepers, The sweet wood yclept sassafras. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley xi, The old and tenantless dwelling yclept Fieldhead. 1877 Gladstone Glean. (1879) I. 169 It is yclept ‘redistribution of seats’. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 23 Feb. 9/1 The Associated South London Extended Gold Mines Corporation, Limited, yclept in the market Suds. |
| ¶irreg. predicated of the name. 1653 J. 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. |