单词 | to call over |
释义 | > as lemmasto call over to call over 1. transitive. To read out names from (a list or roll) in order to establish who is present; to read out the names of (a group of people) in order to establish who is present; to read out (names) in this way. Now rare. to call over the House: to read out the names of the members of a parliamentary house to establish who is present (see call of the House at call n. 4). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > count people > call a roll to call over1587 muster1820 roll-call1928 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. iv. 156/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I So soone as the tenants also doo misse the steward, they runne to the hill with all their might, and there answer all at once, Here here, wherby they escape their amercements: which they should not doo if he could haue called ouer his bill of names before they had missed him in the alehouse. 1593 R. Bancroft Daungerous Positions iii. xiii. 112 The President..shall call ouer the names of those, which be present and which bee absent, and note them. 1645 Rules & Instr. Muster-masters of Army (single sheet) That the Commissary at every muster, call over each Company, or Troope, by the Rolls of the former Muster, and note how many Officers or Souldiers be dead, absent, or Recruited since the last Muster. 1654 L. D. Exact Relation Proc. & Trans. 3 They then proceeded to call over the House. 1659 Particular Advice from Office of Intelligence No. 12. 149 This day the house proceeded in calling over the Members thereof. 1687 T. Cartwright in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 117 We called over the College Roll. 1753 H. Walpole in World 31 May 133 Our custom of calling absence; that is, calling over the list of names, to which each boy is expected to appear and answer. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. vi. 98 The gaoler's servants, who came to call over the prisoners names, and lock up for the night. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiii. 354 A gentleman in black..proceeded to call over the names of the jury. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. ix. 137 It has been the practice of the House of Commons, on several occasions of sufficient importance, to order that the House be called over at a future day. 1927 Spectator 18 June 1079/2 Prayers over in the main hall, they are waiting for me to call over the register. 1946 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 19 June 1/7 Mr. A. H. Val Cotterell, Clerk of the Courts called over the names of the jurors. 2. transitive. a. To take an inventory by reciting or checking off a list of (items); to enumerate or list (items); to go over or check through (a series or set of things) in detail. ΚΠ a1646 J. Burroughes Gospel-worship (1647) x. 207 This book of God out of which we preach, and those truths that we delivered to you from this word, they must be called over again at the great day to judge your souls by. 1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) 358 This day still continues to be the Visitation day, when the Curators..do inspect the Library and call over all the Books. 1774 G. Washington Let. 30 Mar. in Papers (1995) Colonial Ser. X. 14 Keep a regular Acct of your Tools, & call them over frequently, to see that none are missing. 1839 W. S. Upton Code of Pract. Civil Cases Louisiana App. 2 The court shall on every day during the said week..call over the titles of the suits thus entered on the said trial list. 1851 A. M. Sargeant Housemaid's Compl. Guide & Adviser (New ed.) 54 Cut off one list and give it to the laundress, and the other will remain in the book, by which you will call over the articles when she brings them home. 1912 N.Y. Observer & Chron. 4 Jan. 23/1 Reflect, kind reader, on the past year and call over the list of kind words and deeds done to those in affluence or distress and just how happy you have made the recipient. 1998 Jrnl. Appl. Business Res. 14 115/1 Brokers and dealers converge every business day..to ‘call over’ the names of securities. b. To check or audit (an account, ledger, etc.) by reading through the entries; to go through a list of (accounting entries or items). Now historical. ΚΠ 1718 Gother's Spiritual Wks. II. 33 If we..see how much in the Year is spent, by calling over the Books of Taverns, Play-houses, Musick-houses, and Places of other Entertainments, will not their immense Sums be an Evidence against Thousands, to prove how much they had that was Superfluous? 1821 E. T. Jones Eng. Syst. balancing Bks. p. v Errors occurred..but being confined to time and place, were discovered easily without calling over the books. 1856 Manch. Guardian 1 Nov. 1 (advt.) A system of book-keeping..saving, besides, all the time and labour of calling over the books and making trial balances to prove their correctness. 1931 O. Lodge Past Years i. 24 Multitudes of figures had to be called over when any, even the smallest, discrepancy was discovered in the year's or half-year's balance-sheet. 2000 D. T. Merrett & A. Seltzer in D. T. Merrett Business Inst. & Behaviour Austral. 144 The next morning customers' accounts from the previous day were checked as the ledgers were ‘called over’. 3. transitive. To recite, tell (a story, account, etc.); to mention. Also: to read out aloud, proclaim. Now regional. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > recite [verb (transitive)] sayOE record?c1225 reckonc1350 renderc1380 repeat1451 recite1481 to say over1560 bespout1575 decline1597 to call over1674 1674 J. Owen Πνευματολογια i. iii. 64 Because the Subject we are upon doth require it, and it may be useful to the Faith of some; I will call over a few Testimonies given expresly unto his Deity also. 1680 R. Ferguson Let. to Person of Honour conc. Kings Disavowing 16 Here let me call over a story. 1696 C. K. Some Seasonable & Modest Thoughts 35 Nor will I call over the other Methods you have been upon for frustrating the Scots Attempt in the Erection of an East-India Company, because the very mentioning of them would be to expose them. 1732 C. Middleton Def. Let. to Dr. Waterland 60 You proceed to call over again the Story of Babel, and declare my account of that Confusion to be truly a confused one. 1865 J. Harland Lancs. Lyrics 137 Iv o' Sunday to't chourch theaw wilt gang, Ther axins tha'll yer um coed o'er. 1952 F. C. Brown Coll. N. Carolina Folklore I. 525 Call over, to mention, to speak of. ‘You called over that fellow's name just a minute ago.’—Caldwell county. < as lemmas |
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