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3. To invite or command to meet; to
convoke; -- often with together; as, the President
called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to
call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.

Now call we our high court of
Parliament.

Shak.

4. To give name to; to name; to address,
or speak of, by a specifed name.

If you would but call me Rosalind.

Shak.

And God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night.

Gen. i. 5.

5. To regard or characterize as of a
certain kind; to denominate; to designate.

What God hath cleansed, that call not thou
common.

Acts x. 15.

6. To state, or estimate, approximately
or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as,
they call the distance ten miles; he called it a
full day's work.

[The] army is called seven hundred thousand
men.

Brougham.

7. To show or disclose the class,
character, or nationality of.


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