pa. pple. arch. Forms: 1 ʓeclypod, Northumb. ʓicliop(p)ad, 2 ȝecleped, iclipet, 2–3 iclepet, i-, ycluped, 4 yclepud, 4–5 icleped, yclepid, 5 iclepyd, 6 iclipped, iclipt, ycliped, ycclipped, ycleapt, -ed, Sc. yclepit, 6–7 yclipt, 7 i-, ycleeped, ycleep’d, ycleap’d, yclipped, ecleaped, eclip’t, 8 yclyped, 4– ycleped (7–9 yclep’d), 8– yclept. [OE. ʓeclypod, pa. pple. of (ʓe)clypian, (ʓe)clipian CLEPE, YCLEPE: see Y- 4. Adopted by Gawin Douglas from his ME. models, and much affected as a literary archaism by Elizabethan and subsequent poets; in less dignified writing often used for the sake of quaintness or with serio-comic intention.] Called (so-and-so), named, styled.
c. 950. Durham Ritual (Surtees), 60. Dignus vocari apostolus, wyrðe þætte ic se ʓicliopad erendwraca.
c. 1100. O. E. Chron., an. 1057 (MS. D.). [Eadmund] Irensid wæs ʓeclypod for his snellscipe.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 9. Heo weren iclipet synagoge al swa is nu iclepet al cristen folc.
c. 1200. Vices & Virtues, 7. Ðurh ane oðre senne þe is ȝecleped inobediencia.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 5. Syon was sum hwile iclepet þe hehe tur of Jerusalem.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 110. Al þis was ȝwile icluped [v.rr. ycleped, icleped, clepud, callyde, callyd] þe march of walis.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 5560. Her ost was ycleped Blaire.
1340. Ayenb., 18. A vice þet is y-cleped ine clergie ingratitude.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 121. & braunde was þat bold quene of burnes y-clepud.
c. 1430. Two Cookery-bks., 43. Make round-lyke Fretourys … þat ben y-clepid Ragons.
c. 1440. Stac. Rome, 674, in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903), 166. A lytylle chapelle yeet there is, I-clepyd ‘titulus pastoris.’
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., iii. (1555), C j b. They pyped a daunce Iclipped, amour de la hault plesaunce.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, III. ii. 23. The king thairof yclepit Anyus.
1581. Howell, Deuises (1879), 244. By name yclipt Endimion.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., I. i. 242. Now for the ground Which? which I meane I walkt vpon, it is ycliped, Thy Parke.
1592. Soliman & Pers., V. iii. 74. That fraudfull squire of Ithaca, iclipt Vlisses.
1598. Tofte, Alba, III. G v. Loves Labor Lost, I once did see a Play, Ycleped so.
1611. Cotgr., Nommé … named, called, cleaped, ecleaped.
1616. R. C., Times’ Whistle, ii. (1871), 22. The dredfull beast, yclepèd crocodile.
1632. Milton, L’Allegro, 12. But com thou Goddes fair and free, In Heav’n ycleap’d Euphrosyne.
1638. Heywood, Wise Wom., II. i. Seuc. Is thy name Taber? Tab. I am so eclip’t Sir.
1663. Butler, Hud., I. i. 904. A valiant Mamaluke, In Foreign Land yclep’d (Sir Samuel Luke). Ibid. (1664), II. i. 46. A tall long-sided dame (But wondrous light) ycleped Fame.
1727. Lady M. W. Montagu, Lett. to C’tess of Bristol, 1 April. Attending damsels yclep’d maids of honour.
a. 1764. Lloyd, Poetry Prof., Wks. 1774, I. 31. Tho’ not one wit bestrides the back Of useful drudge, ycleped hack.
1822. Lamb, Elia, Ser. I. Praise of Chimney-Sweepers. The sweet wood yclept sassafras.
1849. C. Bronte, Shirley, xi. The old and tenantless dwelling yclept Fieldhead.
1877. Gladstone, Glean. (1879), I. 169. It is yclept ‘redistribution of seats.’
1900. Westm. Gaz., 23 Feb., 9/1. The Associated South London Extended Gold Mines Corporation, Limited, yclept in the market Suds.
¶. irreg. predicated of the name.
1653. J. Taylor (Water P.), Cert. Trav. Uncert. Journ., 17. The name of Wheat ears, on them is ycleap’d, Because they come when wheat is yeerly reap’d.
