Definition of "clept" []

• A past participle of clepe. (verb)

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• "Incidentally, I don't know the meaning of Maundeville's statement "that is clept Aungeles Mete" in reference to the "manna" from St. John's tomb."
• "Wherefore Englishmen putten no trust in them of Muscovy, save only the Englishmen clept Radicals, for they make as if they loved these"
• "For first they have taken an Yle that is clept Malta; and therein built they great castles, to hold it against them of"