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clept

[ klept ]

verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of clepe.


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In the midst of the way there arose a woman of Ireland, that clept herself as a soothsayer.

And she was thus changed and transformed from a fair damsel in the likeness of a dragon by a goddess that was clept Diana.

And the folk of that country are black, and more black than in the other part, and they be clept Moors.

From Constantynoble he that will go by water goeth to an isle that is clept Sylo, and then to the isle of Patmos.

And in the tomb of Saint John is nought but manna, that is clept angels' meat.

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