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Definition of Call fire
1. Noun. Fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Call Fire
Literary usage of Call fire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on the Punishment of Death by Charles Spear (1845)
"... adulteress—Law of Moses—Feelings to be entertained towards the criminal—Anecdote—Request
to call fire from heaven—Peter's request—Forgiveness—Moses and ..."
2. Science for the School and Family by Worthington Hooker (1876)
"And what we call fire is merely a result of some changes that take place in
various substances under certain circumstances. When wood or oil or gas, ..."
3. The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1871)
"is any of them, asked to be permitted to call fire from heaven ... and who would
even call fire from heaven upon poor ignorant sinners. ..."
4. The Philosophical and Theological Works of by John Hutchinson (1749)
"... of what we call fire alone, or whether they act with the volatile Salts ...
or puts more of it into that State we call fire; and if there be fuel or ..."
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