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c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 745 So þat [hit] grimesbi calleth alle..And so shulen men callen it ay.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3686 Ðat stede beð cald ðor-for cabroth.

a1350 (a1250) Harrowing of Hell (Harl.) (1907) 184 Louerd crist, ich am þat þou calledest [?a1300 Digby clepedest] habraham.

1365–7 Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 292 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 The retailyng or salis of the commene wyne callid prisage.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 42 Ane erle in þe North, Uctred men kalde.

?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 1 The holy lond þat men callen the lond of promyssioun.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 1 A worshipful gentylmann callid lowys de Bretaylles.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xlviii. A O thou house of Iacob: ye y^t are called by the name of Israel.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 81 The same yle..Cicill is calt.

1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 65^v A certayne secte whyche were called Flagellarii.

1611 Bible (King James) Gen. i. 5 God called the light, Day, and the darknesse he called Night. View more context for this quotation

1652 T. Nicols Lapidary iii. lxix. 216 This stone is found in a Countrey called Alabastria in Egypt.

1733 G. Berkeley Theory of Vision §xvi. 16 To call Things by their right Names.

1765 London Mag. Mar. 120/1 This child, which was a boy, was called James Viala, and was from his birth a strong lusty child.

1833 J. E. Gray in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 772 It has been proposed to call them by the name of the Nucleus of the shell.

1881 W. Westall Old Factory II. v. 46 My wife was brought to bed last night of a little lass as we are going to call Mabel.

1934 D. Hammett Thin Man xxix. 228 He did not remember having seen a book called The Grand Manner, but he was not a man you would expect to memorize book titles.

1968 G. Mitchell Three Quick & Five Dead i. 24 ‘Edward teaches history and something he calls R.K.’ ‘Religious Knowledge,’ said Laura. ‘They used to call it Scripture in my young days.’

1991 Times 30 Oct. 13/1 From April 1993 Television in the BBC will be organised on the basis of a system we are calling Producer Choice.

1999 R. Rendell Harm Done (2000) ii. 36 ‘What's she called and where's her home?’ ‘She's called Rachel Holmes, Oval Road, Stowerton.’