yclept

Definitions

Examples

• A certain impetuous, wilful, wrong-headed boy, yclept Geoffrey Moncton.

• This rustic place was originally the village ale house, yclept "The Horse Shoe."

• "We'll bate the English into the say," said a resident in the sweet region yclept Summer Hill.

• Xanthippe by name, yclept also Iaia by way of jest, escapes from sorrow since her soul from the body flies.

• The poets, in order to gain a syllable, long continued to use the ancient participle prefix y. See yclept, Allegro 12.