Meaning

(archaic, poetic or humorous) Called (by a certain name), named..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic, poetic or humorous) Called (by a certain name), named.
2. past participle of clepe

Example Sentences

And as I am a Gentleman, betooke my ſelfe to walke: the time When? about the ſixt houre, […] Now for the ground Which? which I meane I walkt vpon, it is ycliped Thy Park.

But com thou Goddes fair and free, / In Heav'n ycleap'd Euphrosyne, […]

There is a tall long-sided Dame, / (But wondrous light) ycleped Fame, / That like a thin Camelion Bourds / He[r] self on Air, and eats her words: […]

Upon a winged Horſe, Icliped Pegaſus, / Swift as the fiery Racers of the Sun, / ——I fly——I fly—— / See how I mount, and cut the liquid Sky.

[T]here arrived in the Room where the two Ladies were ſitting, a Noiſe, […] more like (for what Animal can reſemble a human Voice) to thoſe Sounds, which, in the pleaſant Manſions of that Gate, which ſeems to derive its Name from a Duplicity of Tongues, iſſue from the Mouths, and ſometimes from the Noſtrils of thoſe fair River Nymphs, ycleped of old the Napææ, or the Naïades; […]

Sometimes in consequence of some flagrant villany, he would abscond from the garrison, […] squatting himself down on the edge of a pond catching fish for hours together, and bearing no little resemblance to that notable bird ycleped the Mud-poke.

There is a composition, the ground-work of which I have understood to be the sweet wood ’yclept sassafras.

The shortest path from the Hollow to the Rectory wound near a certain mansion,[…]—the old and tenantless dwelling yclept Fieldhead.

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• ycleped

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