† forthˈcall,v.Obs.rare. [f. forth adv. + call v.] trans.a. To provoke; = L. provocare. b. To call or summon forth. a1300E.E. Psalter lxxvii[i]. 58 In þar graves at nithe þai forth-kalled him als.1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. xii, Forth-calling all with which boon earth is fraught.