ycleped
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Rhizotome, with the soft coat of a field tortoise, alias ycleped a mole, was making himself a velvet purse.
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- Called; named; -- obsolete, except in archaic or humorous writings.
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Rhizotome, with the soft coat of a field tortoise, alias ycleped a mole, was making himself a velvet purse.
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 -
_ Your lady is ycleped --
— The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04 -
In foreign lands ycleped (Sir Luke) -
— Arabian nights. English - âWe are, unfortunately, ignorant of Little Susy's Six Birthdays, but if that book be anything like as good as the charming volume before us by the same author, ycleped Little Lou's Sayings and Doings, it deserves an extraordinary popularity .... — The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
- I have sent Murray a new tragedy, ycleped 'Sardanapalus,' writ according to Aristotle â” all, save the chorus â” could not reconcile me to that. — Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals
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- [AS.
geclipod , p. p. ofclipian ,cleopian ,cliopian , to call. SeeClepe , and also the Note underY- .]