call vb. (1 only S.; 2 a few uses only are given here)
1.
=‘call upon,’ to visit
(a person) at his house
Meas. IV. iv. 18
“I'll call you at your
house,”
Tw.N. III. ii. 58
“We'll call thee at the
cubiculo.”
2.
with preps. and
advs.: call back,
(i) to summon to return Gent. I. ii.
49; (ii) to revoke
H8 II. iv. 232
“to call back her
appeal”
; (iii) to recall to memory
Sonn. iii. 10
“she in thee Calls back
the lovely April of her prime”
; call in,
to withdraw from action
2H4 IV. iii. 28
“Call in the
powers”
; call on or
upon, (i) to
make a claim upon (a person) for payment 1H4 V. i. 130,
Tim. II. ii. 22
“My master is awak'd by
great occasion To call upon his
own”
; (ii) to impeach, challenge Ant. I. iv. 28*; or ?=(i).
