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verb

Call v. i.

To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; sometimes with to. "You must call to the nurse." "The angel of God called to Hagar."

To make a demand, requirement, or request. "They called for rooms, and he showed them one."

To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. "He ordered her to call at the house once a week."

To call for

(a)

To demand; to require; as, a crime calls for punishment; a survey, grant, or deed calls for the metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which it describes.

(b)

To give an order for; to request. "Whenever the coach stopped, the sailor called for more ale."

To call on, To call upon,

(a)

To make a short visit to; as, call on a friend.

(b)

To appeal to; to invite; to request earnestly; as, to call upon a person to make a speech.

(c)

To solicit payment, or make a demand, of a debt.

(d)

To invoke or play to; to worship; as, to call upon God.

To call out To call or utter loudly; to brawl.

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"Call for" Quotes from Famous Books

... is called, put all notion of peace out of Black Hawk's mind, and he started out in earnest on the warpath. Governor Reynolds, excited by the reports of the first arrivals from the Stillman stampede, made out that night, "by candle-light," a call for more volunteers, and by the morning of the 15th had messengers out and his army in pursuit of Black Hawk. But it was like pursuing a shadow. The Indians purposely confused their trail. Sometimes it was a broad path, ...

— McClure's Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2 • Various

... nor the shot of cannon can avail. The spirit of man intrenches itself behind ideas, behind letters, and here it proves impregnable even against the autocracy of a Nicholas. Defeated on the field of war, the spirit of man protests in literature. The times call for the voice, and the voice is soon heard. This voice is the ...

— Lectures on Russian Literature - Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy • Ivan Panin

... had wanted to see the world, and here it was, a miserable contrast to my happy life at home, where I was fondled and admired by everyone. Foolish, foolish little dog that I had been! I began to think too how my dear little mistress would miss me, and how they would search everywhere and call for me in vain, and the more I thought the more painful it all seemed. A long and wretched time passed in this way, during which the fat man, who was a coachman I afterwards heard, puffed at his pipe and read his newspaper, sometimes shaking his head and ...

— The Kitchen Cat, and other Tales • Amy Walton

... was coming to call for you, making sure to catch you before you left; but your mother and I have been talking over family affairs, and the time has slipped away ...

— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens

... after seating himself cross-legged on a carpet in a marble and tessellated recess, was to call for a hookah. He smoked that for a few minutes and contemplated the courtyard on which the recess opened. It was a pleasant object of contemplation, being filled with young orange-trees and creeping plants of a tropical kind, which were watered by a stone fountain in the centre ...

— The Middy and the Moors - An Algerine Story • R.M. Ballantyne

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