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- verb obsolete Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
clepe .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And now is there none of the caliphs, nor nought have been since the time of the Soldan Saladin; for from that time hither the soldan clepeth himself caliph, and so have the caliphs lost their name.
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Afterward was our Lord led forth before the bishops and the masters of the law, into another garden of Annas; and there also he was examined, reproved, and scorned, and crowned eft with a sweet thorn, that men clepeth barbarines, that grew in that garden, and that hath also many virtues.
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And for this Cham, this emperor clepeth him Cham, and sovereign of all the world.
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And for this Cham, this emperour clepeth him Cham and sovereyn of all the world.
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Flagam, and so un to the cytee of Cayphas: of the whiche Cayphas was Lord: and som clepeth hyt the castelle Pellerynez: And from thens ys foure dayes journeyes un to Jerusalem and they goon thorewe Cesarye Phylyppum and Jaffe and Ramys and Emaux, and so unto Jerusalem.
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And so he clepeth him in his letters, right thus: CHAN!
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Natheles, the sooth is this; that Tartars and they that dwell in the great Asia, they came of Cham; but the Emperor of Cathay clepeth him not Cham, but Can, and I shall tell you how.
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But the emperour of Cathay clepeth him not Cham, but Can: and I schalle telle zou how.
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Flagam, and so un to the cytee of Cayphas: of the whiche Cayphas was Lord: and som clepeth hyt the castelle Pellerynez: And from thens ys foure dayes journeyes un to Jerusalem and they goon thorewe Cesarye Phylyppum and Jaffe and Ramys and Emaux, and so unto Jerusalem.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And for this Cham, this emperour clepeth him Cham and sovereyn of all the world.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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