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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



... whiskey, a sort of non-descript mixture of bad kirschwasser with tepid water, and not of the purest gout. Behold your carte. If you have a gun, which you must have in the Bush, and a dog, which you may have, just to keep you company and to talk to, you may now and then kill a Canada pheasant, ycleped partridge, or a wild duck, or mayhap a deer; but do not think of bringing a hound or hounds, for you can kill a deer just as well without them, and I never remember to have heard of a young settler with hounds coming to much good. Moreover, the old proverb says, a man may be known by ...
— Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 • Richard Henry Bonnycastle



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