call
call [-s] n
OE.
- Commission; assignment; vocation; divine appointment; [fig.] fate; destiny; time to die.
- Command; bidding; beckoning; summons; vocal address.
- Appeal; entreaty; solicitation; heavenly invitation; [fig.] light; illumination; visible radiation.
- Visitor; passer-by; potential customer.
call [-s, -ed, -eth] v
OE & ME < ON kalla, cry, summon in a loud voice, call by a name, assert, claim.
- Declare; announce; consider; affirm; assert; proclaim; regard as; claim to be; assert strongly.
- Invite; summon; command; send for; request to come; bid the presence of.
- Name; term; designate; denominate; address as; give someone a title; (see Ruth 1:20).
- Exclaim; cry out; speak aloud; utter audibly.
- Ring; peal; emit sound; communicate the time by repeated tones.
- Visit; come by; drop by; look in; stop by without intention of staying.
- Ask; pray; invoke; implore; petition; plea; return to talk.
- Phrase. “Call away”: take in death; cause to die; transfer to the life hereafter.