yclept

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With loyal spowse, whose name yclept was Jone,

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  • In New York, the house is open for morning visits at twelve, and with a large straggling town, bad attendance at the door, and a total want of convenience in public vehicles, unless one travels in a stage-coach, yclept an omnibus, it is closed at three, for dinner. —  A Residence in France
  • He cared nothing for public opinion, and, as an independent bachelor, desired nothing except "to be let alone," for he professed the utmost contempt for the corrupt brood yclept —  The Story of My Life
  • There had been talk at first, both inside and outside the Francais, of a satirical piece called the Petty Bourgeois, but having nothing except the name in common with his unfinished novel similarly yclept. —  Balzac
  • With loyal spowse, whose name yclept was Jone, —  The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
  • This leech Arbuthnot was yclept, —  Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)
 

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  1. 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.
 

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