/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · 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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