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unˈcalled, ppl. a.
Also 8– Sc. unca'd.
[un-1 8, 8 c. Cf. MSw. and Sw. okallad, Da. ukaldet.]
1. a. Not called or summoned; not invited.
a1400–50Alexander 832 And I to consaile vn-callid I can noȝt þar-on. c1440Alph. Tales 243 Þis Hillarius come to þis cowncell vncallid. a1500in Ratis Raving, etc. 9 Be curtas ay in company: To consell cum þow nocht wncald. 1533More Debell. Salem Wks. 973/1 The ordinary shal know who can tell more, and will also if they be called and sworen, and wyll not vncalled and vnsworen, tel no tale at all. 1587Harrison England ii. xvi. (1877) 280 Yet were they not so narrowlie taken, but that a third part of this like multitude was left vnbilled and vncalled. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 523 Hee boulder now, uncall'd before her stood. 1697Dryden Virgil Postscr., For who would give physic to the great, when he is uncalled? 1796F. Burney Camilla x. iii, [He] would, uncalled, have given his whole attention. 1810Shelley Spectral Horseman 20 The shade of a murdered man, Who has rushed uncalled to the throne of his God. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iv. 84 He came uncalled wherever grief had come. 1861Mrs. H. Wood East Lynne iii. xix, Uncalled, unprepared,..you hurried that unfortunate man into eternity.
b. transf. Of things.
a1586Sidney Astr. & Stella Sonn. lxi, Oft with true sighes, oft with vncalled teares,..I Stella's eyes assaid. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 175 ⁋2 The knowledge of crimes intrudes uncalled and undesired. c1790Cowper Comm. Milton's P.L. ii. 220 Rhyme is apt to come uncalled, and to writers of blank verse is often extremely troublesome. a1839Praed Poems (1865) II. 15 Sudden tears uncalled spring up. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate vi, Bestowing frequent sudden uncalled hugs and kisses on her friend.
2. spec.
a. Not called or summoned by some power or influence to a special function or state.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xviii. §9. 144 b, They must confesse yt the honour is not of God, into which they haue with wicked rashnes broken in vncalled. 1619Hieron Wks. I. 11 All preaching, all exercises of religion ayme at one of these two, either to conuert those that are vncalled, or to builde vp those which are conuerted. 1662H. Hibbert Body Divinity ii. 155 We pray thee then, O Heavenly Father, to call the uncalled Jew and Gentile. 1690C. Nesse O. & N. Test. I. 142 Such as continue in an uncall'd condition yield up themselves to Satan. c1700Prior Sat. Poets 128 Something beyond the uncall'd drudging Tribe, Beyond what Bayes can write, or I describe.
b. Not invited to a pastorate.
1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. vii. (1860) 74/1 Better be a poor mason, better be anything honest, however humble,—than an un-called Minister.
3. With for: Not called for; not asked for or requested; unnecessary, intrusive.
Hence, in recent use, uncalled-for-ness.
pred.a1610Healey Theophrastus (1636) 90 When the people consult,..hee steppeth forth uncalled for. 1623Massinger Dk. Milan i. iii, Enter Francisco. Sforza. Why, uncalled for? 1824L. M. Hawkins Annaline II. 168 The thought comes uncalled for into my mind. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. p. xv, The course he had adopted was uncalled for. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset II. lxvii. 242 No one could now press uncalled-for into his study.
attrib.1635–56Cowley Davideis iii. ad fin., Uncall'd for sighs oft from her bosome flew. 1817Bennet in Parl. Deb. 340 He would oppose..this arbitrary, impolitic, and uncalled-for measure. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxix. 393 The uncalled for administration of mercury. 1874Burnand My Time vi. 50 A satisfactory issue of an uncalled-for interference.
4. Of capital: Not called up.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. 199 The financial statement to same date... Discount on shares, 1837—{pstlg}400,000... Uncalled—{pstlg}619,525. 1882Pall Mall G. 26 July 6/1 The whole of the remaining uncalled capital would have to be called up in order to pay the creditors. |