ycleped

English

Adjective

ycleped

1. Alternative spelling of yclept
   • 1663, [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, canto I, page 106:

     There is a tall long-sided Dame, / (But wondrous light) ycleped Fame, / That like a thin Camelion Bourds / He[r] self on Air, and eats her words: […]

   • 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Shewing How Profound Secrets are Strangely Brought to Light; […]”, in A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC, book VI, page 86:

     Sometimes in consequence of some flagrant villany, he would abscond from the garrison, […] squatting himself down on the edge of a pond catching fish for hours together, and bearing no little resemblance to that notable bird ycleped the Mud-poke.

   • 1820, Dawson Turner, “Letter X. Early Pointed Architecture—Cathedral—Episcopal Palace”, in Account of a Tour in Normandy; […], volume I, London: […] [C. Sloman] for John and Arthur Arch, […], →OCLC, footnote †, page 163:

     The event is described in the metrical history of Rouen, composed by a minstrel ycleped Poirier, the limper.

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 252–253:

     We by no means mean to say that Lady Anne's happy and pleasant little party would not have received a new impetus if a Moore, a Bulwer, a Hook, or those monopolists of beauty and wit, Mrs. Gore and Mrs. Norton, or those daughters of Apollo, ycleped Mitford, Pardoe, and Strickland had been mingled with her "blue spirits and grey;" but we do mean to say that they were very happy without them, and that much, perhaps all, of the "feast of reason and the flow of soul," for which these distinguished individuals are loved, and sought, and honoured, would have been lost in the melée of dancing, singing, chattering, and flirting, to which the major part of the visitants were devoted.

   • 1863, Frances Anne Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, →OCLC, page 176:

     The damsel, ycleped Louisa, made rather a shame-faced obeisance, and her old grandmother went on to inform me that she had only lately been forgiven by the overseer for an attempt to run away from the plantation.

Middle English

Verb

ycleped

1. past participle of clepen