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y⋅clept

[ee-klept]
–verb
a pp. of clepe.
Also, y⋅cleped.


Origin:
bef. 1000; ME ycleped, OE geclypod, ptp. of clypian, cleopian to clepe

clepe

[kleep]
–verb (used with object), cleped or clept (also y⋅cleped or y⋅clept ), clep⋅ing. Archaic.
to call; name (now chiefly in the pp. as ycleped or yclept).

Origin:
bef. 900; ME clepen, OE cleopian, var. of clipian; akin to MLG kleperen to rattle
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.]

yclept 
O.E. gicliopad; see y-.
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