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Definition of Call to order
1. Verb. Open formally. "The chairman called the meeting to order by pounding his gavel"
Definition of Call to order
1. Verb. (transitive) To formally signal the start of a meeting or function ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Call To Order
Literary usage of Call to order
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of John Caldwell Calhoun by John Stilwell Jenkins (1857)
"... call to -order —Opposition to the Measures of Mr. Adams — Reelection of Mr.
Calhoun — The Tariff Question — Matured Opinions — Address. ..."
2. The Life and Political Opinions of Martin Van Buren by William M. Holland (1835)
"VAN BUREN'S support of a strict construction of the constitution^ with extracts
from his speech on the power of the Vice President to call to order, ..."
3. The Lancet (1898)
"Let us see what the proposed call to order would amount to. ... It is evident
that France would not be able to join in the proposed call to order. ..."
4. Millard Fillmore Papers ...: Ed. by Frank H. Severance by Millard Fillmore (1907)
"It also made a distinction between a call to order by the President, and by a
Senator, for words spoken, by requiring in the latter case that the ..."
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