calll (kal)

[Early mod. E. also cal, calle, pronounce or announce. Nor parish clerk who calls the psalms so clear. Gay, Shep. Week, vi. 49. IMG:content-2940.png:[blocks in formation] 766 Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your ocGen. xlvi. 33. And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding. Mat. xxii. 3. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., v. 1. Be not amazed; call all your senses to you; defend your reputation. Shak ., M. W. of W., iii. 3. 4. To convoke; a emble; i ue a summons for the a embling of: as, to call a meeting: often with together : as, the king called his council together . elders and all the inhabitants of the land. Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn a embly, gather the Joel ii. 14. call As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. Mat. xxii. 9. In capital cases the grand council is convoked to pro- nounce sentence. J. Adams , Works, IV. 338. Some trumpet summon hither to the walls These men of Angiers. Shak ., K. John, ii. 1. 5 and 6. To designate, entitle, term, style. II. in trans. 1. To make a sound designed (or as if designed) to attract attention; demand heed to one's wish, entreaty, etc.; shout; cry. The angel of the Lord called to Hagar. Gen. xxi. 17. Who is that calls so coldly? Shak ., T. of the S., iv. 1. And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the Bryant , Death of the Flowers. gloomy day. ignation. And God called the light Day, and the darkne he called Night. Gen. i. 5. And from thense we Ascendid a lytyll And come to a nother tower Callyd Galilee. Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 30. 6. To designate or characterize as; state or affirm to be; reckon; consider. Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! Shak ., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4. He [James II.) was willing to make for his religion exertions and sacrifices from which the great majority of those who are called religious men would shrink. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. 7. To indicate or point out as being; manifest, reckon, or suppose to be. This speech calls him Spaniard, being nothing but a large inventory of his own commendations. Beau, and Fl ., Phil aster, i. 1. Scott . He was a grave personage, about my own age (which we shall call about fifty). 80,000 can be reckoned available. The whole army is called 700,000 men, but of these only Brougham. 8. To select, as for an office, a duty, or an employment; appoint: as, "Paul,... called to be an apostle," Rom. i. 1.-9. To invoke or appeal to. I call God for a record upon my soul. 2 Cor. i. 23. 10. In shooting, to lure, as wild birds, within range by imitating their notes. - Called se ion, a special se ion of a legislative body summoned by the executive. [U. S.]- To call a card, in whist, to name a card which has been improperly exposed, requiring the player to whom it belongs to place it face up on the table, that it may be played whenever an opponent wishes. Such a card is known as a called card. To call a chapel. See chapel. To call back, to recall; summon or bring back; hence, to revoke or retract. I have joys, That in a moment can call back thy wrongs, And settle thee in thy free state again. Beau . and Fl ., Maid's Tragedy, v. 4. To call forth, to bring or summon to action: as, to call forth all the faculties of the mind. - To call in, to collect: as, to call in debts or money; or to withdraw from circulation: as, to call in clipped coin; or to summon to one's house, invite to come together: as, to call in neigh bors and friends. To call names, to use opprobrious epithets toward; apply reproachful appellations to. Swift . To call off, to summon away; divert: as, to call off the attention; to call off workmen from their employment. - To call out. (a) To challenge to a duel. Yet others tell, the Captain fix'd thy doubt, He'd call thee brother, or he'd call thee out . Crabbe, Parish Register. (1) To summon into service: as, to call out the militia. (c) To elicit; bring into play; evoke. New territory, augmented numbers, and extended in terests call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe IMG:content-2941.png:[blocks in formation] To call over, to go over by reading aloud name by name: to read aloud from a list the names of the members in a as, to call over a list or roll of names. To call the roll, legislative or other body. To call to account, to demand an explanation or accounting from. The king had sent for the earl to return home, where he should be called to account for all his miscarriages. Lord Henry Clarendon. To call to mind, to recollect; revive in memory. I cannot call to mind where I have read or heard words more mild and peace full. Milton , Areopagitica, p. 51. To call to the bar, to admit to the rank of barrister. [Great Britain.] - To call up. (a) To bring into view or recollection: as, to call up the image of a deceased friend. (6) To bring into action or discu ion: as, to call up a bill before a legislative body. (c) To require payment of: as, Call, Invite, Bid , Convoke , Summon , a emble, convene. to call up the sums still due on shares. = Syn. 3 and 4. Call is generic, and applicable to summonses of all kinds. Invite is more formal, and in compliance with the requirements of courteous ceremony; bid in this sense is obsolete or poetic. Convoke, literally to call together, implies authority in the agent and an organization which is called into se ion or a embly: as, to convoke the Houses of Par liament. Summon implies authority in the summoner and usually formality in the method. Call'd her to shelter in the hollow oak. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. He [the Governor] dispatched his Chamberlain, an elderly and dignified personage, bearing a silver mace as the badge of his office,... to invite me to dinner. O'Donovan, Merv, p. 116. at, for, or on or upon: as, to call at a house or place, for a person or thing, or upon a person. (See phrases below.) [Johnson supposes this use to have originated in the custom of denoting one's presence at the door by a call.] Yet say the neighbours when they call , It is not bad but good land. Tennyson, Amphion. 3. In poker, to demand that the hands be shown. To be (or feel) called on, to be (or feel) under obligation, compulsion, or nece ity (to do something). He was not called on to throw away his own life and those of his brave followers, in a cause perfectly desperate, for a chimerical point of honor. Pre scott , Ferd. and Isa., ii. 7. To call for. (a) To demand; require; claim: as, a crime calls for punishment. (6) To make a stop or brief visit for the procurement of, as a thing, or the company of a person to another place. - To call on or upon. (a) To demand from or appeal to: as, to call on a person to pay what he owes; to call upon a person for a song. (6) Το pray to or worship; invoke: as, to call on the name of the Lord. (c) To make a short visit to, as a person or a family, usually for a special purpose. To call out, to make utterance in a loud voice; bawl.