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Definition of Call on
1. Verb. Have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to. "They call on him to write the letter"; "She turned to her relatives for help"
Definition of Call on
1. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To visit (a person); to pay a call to. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic transitive in a classroom) To select (a student). ¹
3. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To request or ask something of (a person); to select for a task. ¹
4. Verb. (idiomatic) To correct; to point out an error or untruth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Call On
Literary usage of Call on
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1882)
"I do not ask you to come in the morning, for we must walk to the Park, to call
on Lady Middleton." He engaged to be with them by four o'clock. CHAPTER XV. ..."
2. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"I do not ask you to come in the morning, for we must walk to the park, to call
on Lady Middleton." He engaged to be with them by four o'clock. ..."
3. The Confessions of S. Augustine by Augustine, Edward Bouverie Pusey (1838)
"Grant me, Lord, to know and understand which is first, to call on Thee or to
praise Thee ? and, again, to know Thee or to call on Thee ? For who can call on ..."
4. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... and to Greeks, we call on you to relent and change your mind, if you ask ¡is
u boon from thorn in return that they would not kill thc.su whoso death is ..."
5. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"Grant me, Lord, to know and understand which is first, to call on Thee or to
praise Thee? and, again, to know Thee or to call on Thee ? for who can call on ..."
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