cleped

• 790 He is so ferforth Amourous He not what thing is vicious Touchende love, for that lawe Ther mai no maner man withdrawe The which venerien is bore Be weie of kinde, and therefore Venus of love the goddesse Is cleped: bot of wantounesse The climat of hir lecherie Is most commun in Lombardie. —  Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins
• And there made Nabugodonozor the kyng putte three children in to the forneys of fuyr; for thei weren in the righte trouthe of beleeve: the whiche children men cleped, Ananya, Azaria, Mizćlle; as the Psalm of Benedicite seythe. —  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I
• And whan thei ben alle cleped, thei entren eche aftre other, and presentenen the white hors to the emperour; and than gon hire wey. —  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I
• He is more remarkable for extent than for depth, for solidity than for splendour, for fuel than for fire, for learning than for genius THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN Of goldë glist'ring spoke and wheel The Sun his cart hath fair and wele, In which he sitteth, and is croned[1] With bright stonës environed: Of which if that I speakë shall, There be before in special Set in the front of his corone Three stones, whichë no person Hath upon earth; and the first is By name cleped Leucachatis. —  Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
• [239] The MSS. usually read "cleped" for "called." —  The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521

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