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- verb archaic
calls : Third-person singular simple present indicative form ofcall .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mu’ezzin calleth to prayer, thou shalt let me go pray with the congregation.’
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This is but fulfilling the Scriptures where it says "one evil word calleth for another."
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And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.
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Ahhh yes, Giuliani is "pro-regristration of handguns" and that's bad because Jesus of course said: "And let he who calleth himself a liberal or a moderate never take from you your handgun, for that is an abomination" ....
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And now, drum roll, sound the trumpets aloud, the town crier calleth!
California's Pesticide Spray Program: Warfare against Vocal Americans? 2008
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Let us not abuse the goodness of God, who calleth us mercifully to amendment, and of his endless pity promiseth us forgiveness of that which is past, if with a perfect and true heart we return unto him.
Ash Wednesday . . . Old School Fr Timothy Matkin 2008
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Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
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Then shall appear the wrath of God in the day of vengeance, which obstinate sinners, through the stubbornness of their heart, have heaped unto them, selves; which despised the goodness, patience, and long, sufferance of God, when he calleth them continually to repentance.
Ash Wednesday . . . Old School Fr Timothy Matkin 2008
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Our chamberlain at Kinross, Luke Lundin, — Doctor, as he foolishly calleth himself, — will acquaint thee what is to be done in the matter about which thou goest.
The Abbot 2008
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The sun calleth not back the splendour which he lends to the moon; and the father obscures not the dignity which he has conferred on the son.
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