Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CALL, v.t. [L. calo; Gr. καλεω; Sw. kalla; Dan. kalder; W. galw, to call; D. kallen, to talk; Ch. כלא, in Aph. to call, to thunder; Heb. to hold or restrain, which is the Gr. κωλυω, L. caula; Syr. Sam. and Eth. to hold, or restrain; Ar. to keep; L. celo. The primary sense is to press, drive or strain. We find the like elements and signification in Sax. giellan, or gyllan, to yell; Dan. galer, to crow. Class Gl. The W. galw is connected in origin with gallu, to be able, to have power, may, can, Eng. could, the root of gallant, L. gallus; &c. In a general sense, to drive; to strain or force out sound. Hence,]

1. To name; to denominate or give a name. And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. – Gen. i.
2. To convoke; to summon; to direct or order to meet; to assemble by order or public notice; often with together; as, the king called his council together; the president called together the congress.
3. To request to meet or come. He sent his servants to call them that were bidden. Matth xxii.
4. To invite. Because I have called and ye refused. Prov. i.
5. To invite or summon to come or be present; to invite, or collect; as, call all your senses to you.
6. To give notice to come by authority; to command to come; as, call a servant.
7. To proclaim; to name, or publish the name. Nor parish clerk, who calls the psalm so clear. – Gay.
8. To appoint or designate, as for an office, duty or employment. See, I have called by name Bezaleel. – Ex. xxxi. Paul, called to be an apostle. – Rom. i.
9. To invite; to warn; exhort. – Is. xxii. 12. Cruden.
10. To invite or draw into union with Christ; to bring to know, believe and obey the gospel. Rom. viii. 28.
11. To own and acknowledge. Heb. ii. xi.
12. To invoke or appeal to. I call God for a witness. 2 Cor. i.
13. To esteem or account. Is. lviii. 5. Matt. iii. 15. To call down, to invite, or to bring down. To call back, to revoke, or retract; to recall; to summon or bring back. To call for, to demand, require, or claim; as, a crime calls for punishment; or to cause to grow. Ezek. xxxvi. Also, to speak for; to ask; to request; as, to call for a dinner. To call in, to collect; as, to call in debts or money; or to draw from circulation; as, to call in clipped coin; or to summon together; to invite to come together; as, to call in neighbors or friends. To call forth, to bring or summon to action; as, to call forth all the faculties of the mind. To call off, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the attention; to call off workmen from their employment. To call up, to bring into view or recollection; as, to call up the image of a deceased friend; also, to bring into action, or discussion; as to call up a bill before a legislative body. To call over, to read a list, name by name; to recite separate particulars in order, as a roll of names. To call out, to summon to fight; to challenge; also, to summon into service; as, to call out the militia. To call to mind, to recollect; to revive in memory.