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| v. t. | (k***add]l) |
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| Call |
| [imp.
*** p. p. Called (k&add]ld); p. pr. *** vb.
n. Calling] [OE. callen, AS.
ceallian] akin to Icel. *** Sw. kalla, Dan.
kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate |
To command or request to come or be
present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
To summon to the discharge of a
particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment,
especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine
summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to
invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a
church.
To invite or command to meet; to
convoke; -- often with together; as, the President
called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to
call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.
To give name to; to name; to address,
or speak of, by a specifed name.
To regard or characterize as of a
certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
To state, or estimate, approximately
or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as,
they call the distance ten miles; he called it a
full day's work.
To show or disclose the class,
character, or nationality of.
To utter in a loud or distinct voice]
-- often with off; as, to call, or call off,
the items of an account; to call the roll of a military
company.
To invoke; to appeal to.
To rouse from sleep; to
awaken.
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To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; --
sometimes with to.
To make a demand, requirement, or
request.
To make a brief visit; also, to stop
at some place designated, as for orders.
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The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often
otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by
writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call
for help; the bugle's call.
A signal, as on a drum, bugle,
trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to
duty.
An invitation to take
charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
A requirement or appeal arising from
the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or
appeal.
A divine vocation or
summons.
Vocation; employment.
A short visit; as, to make a
call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman
to solicit orders.
A note blown on the
horn to encourage the hounds.
A whistle or pipe, used
by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to
duty.
The cry of a bird;
also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call
birds by imitating their note or cry.
A reference
to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter
of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a
corresponding object, etc., on the land.
The privilege to demand the delivery
of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or
within a certain time agreed on.
See Assessment, 4.
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