yclept
/ee-klept/US // iˈklɛpt //UK // (ɪˈklɛpt) obsolete //
yclept
Definitions
v.动词 verb
- 1
- : a past participle of clepe.
Examples
A certain impetuous, wilful, wrong-headed boy, yclept Geoffrey Moncton.
This rustic place was originally the village ale house, yclept "The Horse Shoe."
"We'll bate the English into the say," said a resident in the sweet region yclept Summer Hill.
Xanthippe by name, yclept also Iaia by way of jest, escapes from sorrow since her soul from the body flies.
The poets, in order to gain a syllable, long continued to use the ancient participle prefix y. See yclept, Allegro 12.
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