call on
verb- To visit (a person); to pay a call to. · I really should call on my aunt more often.
- To select (a student in a classroom, etc.) to provide an answer. · He sat there, baffled, hoping nobody would call on him.
- To request or ask something of (a person); to select for a task. · The king called on his subjects to take up arms and defend the kingdom.
- To have recourse to. · Exhausted, he called on his last ounce of strength.· The young adventurer set out on the new planet alone, thankful that she could still call on her captain for advice in case of emergency.
- To correct; to point out an error or untruth. · The salesman persisted in quoting a rate higher than was listed, until we called him on it.
From the library
Some of them were to dine with the Philipses the next day, and their aunt promised to make her husband call on Mr.
Darcy would no more suffer him to call on Jane in such a part of London!
She is on her road somewhere, I dare say; and so, passing through Meryton, thought she might as well call on you.
She soon learnt that they were indebted for their present good understanding to the efforts of his aunt, who _did_ call on him in her return through London, and there relate her journey to Longbourn, its motive, and the substance of her conversation with Elizabeth; dwelling emphatically on every expression of the latter, which, in her Ladyship’s apprehension, peculiarly denoted her perverseness and assurance, in the belief that such a relation must assist her endeavours to obtain that promise from her nephew which _she_ had refused to give.
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