Past tense and past participle of clepe; was called or named.
Regular past tense formation of clepe with the suffix -ed, following Middle English verb conjugation patterns that are mostly extinct in modern English.
When you read 'as he cleped himself,' you're watching language in slow motion—seeing a verb form freeze and die in real-time across the centuries.
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