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Quotation dates: 1400, 1475-1597
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Clep(e, Cleip, v. [ME. clepe, OE. cleopian, clipian. See also Clip v.2 In Sc. chiefly in verse, after Eng.]
1. tr. To call, name.(a) c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 413.
To the gode clepeth Appolyne a1500 Henr. Orph. iii.
Proserpyne … Quhilk clepit is the goddes infernall c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vii. 397.
Wallace a lord he may be clepyt weyll a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 1686.
Whar thow gar fet and clep one euery sid … Thi dukis [etc.] a1500 Quare of Jelusy 299.
This may be clept a wrech 1513 Doug. i. v. 108.
As a god men sal him clepe and call 1513 Ib. ii. viii. 31; etc.
A litil ȝet, clepit a postern 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xii.
This othir wenche, that clepit is Delite c1550 Rolland Court of Venus Prol. 12.
The thrid [complexion] clepit is colerike suithlie(b) 1513 Doug. xi. Prol. 33.
Strang fortitud, quhilk hardyment cleip we c1550 Rolland Court of Venus ii. 92.
The first [Muse] Clio is cleipit sickerlie 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. i. 435.
Sho agane … Hir knicht him cleipis 1501 Ib. 572.
A spirituall man … Cleipit I am
2. To call out to, to address; to call up. 1513 Doug. ii. v. 57.
I first … Rycht reuerently begouth to clepe [L. compellare] this man 1513 Ib. xiii. Prol. 175.
The hynys wife clepis vp Katheryn and Gill
b. (With call.) To accuse or denounce. (Cf. Clepe n.) 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Clep.
Quhen the persewer did clep, and call, the defender with wouth, wrang, and vnlaw, in harming and skaithing of him of sik ane thing
3. intr. (With call or cry.) To cry out, call on. 1513 Doug. iii. v. 41.
Oft wald sche cleip and call, … Apon the saulis that wnbodeit war 1513 Ib. xiii. iv. 95. 1513 Ib. vii. vi. 134.
Oft … wald scho clepe and cry, Owt harro!
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