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Ycleped   Listen
verb
Ycleped  past part.  (Spelt also yclept)  Called; named; obsolete, except in archaic or humorous writings. "It is full fair to ben yclept madame." "But come, thou goddess fair and free. In heaven ycleped Euphrosyne." "Those charming little missives ycleped valentines."






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"Ycleped" Quotes from Famous Books



... itself; the shores of Nova Scotia are seen through an atmosphere of crystal and under an azure without stain, and on the third day the Gut of Canso is reached, and anchor cast in the little harbor of a little, dirty, bluenose villagette, ycleped "Port Mulgrave." ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 • Various

... implores their high mightinesses to grant him one poor sprig of laurel, he is treated slightingly, and despised, as a pitiful fellow who wants that essential ingredient in the composition of a man of talent and good breeding, ycleped by the moderns confidence. If he speaks of 13 the excellence of his subject, he creates doubts both with his readers and reviewers, who will use their endeavours to convince him he has not a correct knowledge ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

... can remember a long time ago. You, gentle Reader, just entering upon the prime of life, that age by thoughtless youth called middle, I cannot, of course, expect to follow me—when there was in great demand a certain periodical ycleped The Amateur. Its aim was noble. It sought to teach the beautiful lesson of independence, to inculcate the fine doctrine of self-help. One chapter explained to a man how he might make flower-pots out of Australian ...
— The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow • Jerome K. Jerome

... to grope, he might come to the conclusion that the first man (or race of men) was anything but a grandee in mind, person, or estate; and that our seemingly puzzled but at last most wonder-working mother, ycleped Nature, made some very ugly attempts at man before she reached the climax of her imagination and her power as it obtains ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various



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