[kleep] 
| to call; name (now chiefly in the pp. as ycleped or yclept). |
| clepe (klēp) tr.v. cleped (klēpt, klěpt), cleped or clept (klěpt) or y·clept (ĭ-klěpt') or y·cleped (ĭ-klēpt', ĭ-klěpt'), clep·ing, clepes Archaic To call; name. [Middle English clepen, from Old English cleopian, to cry out.] |
| y·clept (ĭ-klěpt') v. A past participle of clepe. [Middle English icleped, from Old English geclepod, past participle of gecleopian, to call : ge-, verb pref.; see kom in Indo-European roots + cleopian, to call.] |
