becall

present singular third person becalls · participle present becalling · participle past becalled · past becalled

1. transitiveTo accuse.

   You must not becall me for laughing when you spoke; you mistook when you thought I laughed at you as a foolish man.

   1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book 1, Chapter 9

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   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. obsoletetransitiveTo call upon; call forth; challenge.
3. obsoletetransitiveTo call; summon.
4. transitiveTo call names; insult.