Meaning of becall | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To accuse.
   transitive
2. To call upon; call forth; challenge.
   obsolete, transitive
3. To call; summon.
   obsolete, transitive
4. To call names; insult.
   transitive

Examples

“1741, Conny Keyber (pseudonym; attributed to Henry Fielding), An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, edited by Sheridan W. Baker, Jr., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953, Letter 6, p. 27, I no sooner see him, but I scream out to Mrs. Jervis, she feigns likewise but just to come to herself; we both begin, she to becall, and I to bescratch very liberally.”

“You must not becall me for laughing when you spoke; you mistook when you thought I laughed at you as a foolish man.”

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