Becall

Origin

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

Full definition of becall

Verb

1. (transitive) To accuse.
• 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the NativeYou must not becall me for laughing when you spoke; you mistook when you thought I laughed at you as a foolish man.
• 2009, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews and Shamela - Page 203: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. (transitive, obsolete) To call upon; call forth; challenge.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To call; summon.
4. (transitive) To call names; miscall.