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yclept

/ee-klept/US // iˈklɛpt //UK // (ɪˈklɛpt) obsolete //

yclept

Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 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.