becall

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verb

V_es/s

becalls

V_ing/Gerund

becalling

V_ed/pp

becalled

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

Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English bicallen, bikallen, equivalent to be- + call.