Definition of "becall"

becall

verb
third-person singular simple present becalls, present participle becalling, simple past and past participle becalled
1. (transitive) To accuse.
  Quotations
  I no sooner see him, but I scream out to Mrs. Jervis, she feigns likewise but just to come to herself; we both begin, she to becall, and I to bescratch very liberally.
  1741, Conny Keyber (pseudonym; attributed to Henry Fielding), An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, edited by Sheridan W. Baker, Jr., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953, Letter 6, p. 27
  You must not becall me for laughing when you spoke; you mistook when you thought I laughed at you as a foolish man.
  1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native‎, Book 1, Chapter 9
2. (transitive, obsolete) To call upon; call forth; challenge.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To call; summon.
4. (transitive) To call names; insult.