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?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors ii. sig. A8 His grace will call down the pryce of his owne landes.

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Eviii^v To calle downe the value of coyne, to lesse then it is worthe.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Bb4^v If an vntruth..bee once on foote..it is neuer called downe . View more context for this quotation

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. iv. 151 All other Moneyes..shall bee decryed, annulled, and called downe.

1668 J. Child Brief Observ. Trade 31 If the Rate of Usury should be called down.

?1695 Memorial Majesties Privy Council Eng. Clipt Money 1 The Remedy appears to be Two-fold, First, to call down the Value of the English clipt Money, and then to call up or raise the Value of the other Currant Coins of Scotland.

1707 W. Fleetwood Chronicon Preciosum iii. 57 In 5 Ed. VI...9 Ounces of Allay were added to 3 Ounces of fine Silver, and coin'd into 72 Shillings..and when in the Year following, this Base Money was called down, the People suffered extreamly by it.

a1760 T. Gifford Hist. Descr. Zetland (1786) App. 98 They have of late called down at Hamburgh their 6 stiver pieces to 5 stivers, and their other species proportionably.

1807 F. Douce Illustr. Shakspeare & Anc. Manners I. 37 The base shillings of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. were called down to nine-pence.

1903 W. Cunningham Growth Eng. Industry & Commerce (ed. 3) I. iii. xiii. 438 Parliament had indeed called down the price of guineas from 30s. to 26s.

1994 Business & Econ. Hist. 23 39 Calling down the value of silver would have antagonized creditors and the landed class.

1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. A.3^v Greate sinnes call down great plages, and mighty sinners are mightily punished.

1581 W. Charke Replie to Censure sig. Q.viii Where wickednesse of life, and abhomination of doctrine striue, which may cal downe the greatest vengeaunce.

1641 T. Killigrew Claracilla v, in Prisoners & Claracilla sig. F5 Ile..No longer with my prayers protect this ingratefull Place from the punishment her treacheries call downe.

1690 H. Waring Rule of Charity 29 Calling down Blessings upon Thee and thy Family.

1735 L. Theobald Fatal Secret ii. 21 That inordinate and wanton Conduct Calls down a Censure.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 110 On his name Shall call down wretchedness and shame.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 18 Calling down a blessing on his head.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 197 This divorce was one of the many irregularities in that way which called down the censures of Pope Leo.

1925 E. M. Brent-Dyer School at Chalet xix. 250 Amy..cut capers to such an extent that she called down upon herself a sharp reprimand from Miss Maynard.

1948 V. Palmer Golconda xiv. 109 I've..seen him standing up there on one of those outcrops overlooking the company's buildings as if he'd like to call down fire from heaven on the whole shebang.

2007 K. Casper Upstairs at Miss Hattie's v. 49 Her father caught her in the act with her boyfriend.., called down the wrath of God and threw her out of the house.

1657 T. Burton Diary 2 Jan. (BL MS Add. 15859) f. 133^v He went on a little way in it, but was called downe, in respect it was late.

1894 P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling xix. 97 Finally a compromise having been evidently made impossible, the orator was ‘called down’ and it was voted to proceed to an election.

1907 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 274 It was necessary to limit the time for speaking, and sometimes to call down the orator before he had finished.

1926 Rotarian Feb. 53/1 The President, who is always very considerate, said that it is disagreeable for him, as well as for the speakers themselves to be called down before they get to the end of their speeches.

1883 Cheyenne (Wyoming) Weekly Leader 23 Aug. 2/4 He'll ‘whack up’ his blankets, or share his ‘grub’—No need of ‘Calling him down’.

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous ix. 196 An unsatisfied dough-faced youth who took delight in ‘calling down the old man’ and reducing his mother to tears.

1904 F. Lynde Grafters v. 58 He..so far lost his temper as to get himself called down by the judge.

1907 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp & Other Stories 213 When Fernando wanted to give me several thousand dollars for my trousseau he called him down something awful.

1923 M. Watts Luther Nichols 65 No one should ever have the chance to call him down.

2001 L. Erdrich Last Rep. Miracles at Little No Horse viii. 138 Some sort of argument occurred in which the girl, who by now had good reason to hate and fear Leopolda, called her down, as they say here.