v. Obs. rare. [f. FORTH adv. + CALL v.] trans. a. To provoke; = L. provocare. b. To call or summon forth.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter, lxxvii[i]. 58. In þar graves at nithe þai forth-kalled him als.

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1748.  Thomson, Cast. Indol., II. xii.

        Sometimes in hand the spade or plough he caught,
Forth-calling all with which boon earth is fraught.

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