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Call (To)

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I call God to witness. I solemnly declare that what I state is true.

To call. To invite: as, the trumpet calls.

“If honour calls, whereʹer she points the way,

The sons of honour follow and obey.”


Churchill: The Farewell, stanza 7.

To call [a man] out. To challenge him; to appeal to a man’s honour to come forth and fight a duel.

To call in question. To doubt the truth of a statement; to challenge the truth of a statement. “In dubium vocare.”

To call over the coals. (See Coals.)

To call to account. To demand an explanation; to reprove.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Call (A)
Call Bird (A)
Call-boy (The)
Call of Abraham
Call of God
Call of the House
Call to Arms (To)
Call to the Bar
Call to the Pastorate
Call to the Unconverted
Call (To)
Called
Callabre or Calaber
Caller Herrings
Calligraphy (The art of)
Callimachos
Calling
Calliope [Kal-lĭ-o-pe, 4 syl., Greek, καλoζ, pψ, beautiful voice]
Callipolis
Callippic Period
Callirrhoe