English

Verb

becall ‎(third-person singular simple present becalls, present participle becalling, simple past and past participle becalled)

1. (transitive) To accuse.
   • 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

     You must not becall me for laughing when you spoke; you mistook when you thought I laughed at you as a foolish man.

   • 2009, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews and Shamela - Page 203:

     I no sooner see him, but I scream out to Mrs. Jervis, she feigns likewise but just to come to herself; we both begin, she to becall, and I to bescratch very liberally.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To call upon; call forth; challenge.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To call; summon.
4. (transitive) To call names; miscall.