Examples
“Rhizotome, with the soft coat of a field tortoise, alias ycleped a mole, was making himself a velvet purse.”
“Before the door of Saunders Jaup, a feuar of some importance, “who held his land free, and caredna a bodle for any one,” yawned that odoriferous gulf, ycleped, in Scottish phrase, the jawhole; in other words, an uncovered common sewer.”
“The last remarkable corruption is in the introduction of a curious piece of stage-machinery, ycleped a confidant, who, loving her mistress more than herself, like a good servant, accompanies her through wind and rain, and every other stage-horror, in a dark night, on a wild-goose chase, without any adequate or apparent object.”
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
“In the light of this law, _were any one mad enough to grope_, he might come to the conclusion that the first man (or race of men) was anything but a grandee in mind, person, or estate; and that our seemingly puzzled but at last most wonder-working mother, ycleped”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
“Scotland, all printed by Pynson, as well as that mysterious volume ycleped 'The Nigramansir,' said to be by John Skelton the poet-laureate who lived under five kings and died in 1529.”
“Also, this heading will comprise that great series of mysterious and 'racy' books ycleped 'Court Memoirs,' and the somewhat less exciting but -- to our book-hunter's mind at least -- more interesting works which border on the domain of history, such as the”
“You may actually get there thread made of flax, from the gouty, uneven, clumsy, shiny fabric, ycleped whited-brown, to the delicate commodity of Lisle, used for darning muslin.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number
“Where fam'd St. Giles's ancient limits spread," the matutinal huckster may be seen administering to costermongers, hackney-coachmen, and "fair women without discretion," a fluid "all hot, all hot," ycleped by the initiated elder wine, which, we should think, might give the partakers a tolerable notion of the fermenting beverage extracted by Tartars from mare's milk not particularly fresh.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
“Now for the ground which; which, I mean, I walked upon: it is ycleped thy park.”
“Brave knight, with pipes on shield, ycleped Vernon”
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...


another jiggeting rascal called Biron, a third simpering varlet of the name of Symmes, and a more hideous villain than any of the rest, with a long bag under his arm, and parchment settlements tagged to his heels, ycleped Solmes...
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Jan 4, 2008