clepe

• POS: Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

clepe, v. t. [AS. clepan, cleopian, clipian, clypian, to cry, call.].

 To call, or name.  [1913 Webster]
"That other son was cleped Cambalo."  [1913 Webster]

clepe, v. i. 

 To make appeal; to cry out.  [1913 Webster]
"Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high
Cleping for vengeance of this treachery."  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

clepe

Nomenclature

VB name, call, term, denominate designate, style, entitle, clepe, dub, christen, baptize, characterize, specify, define, distinguish by the name of, label, be called, take the name of, bean the name of, go by the name of, be known by the name of, go under the name of, pass under the name of, rejoice in the name of.