- Ringing up about vocation - of Call - The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to
summon, or to attact the attention of, some one. - A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament. - A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being
divinely called. - A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in
order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in
legislative bodies. - One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business;
trade.
- Title before a person’s name - To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another
thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an
agreement. - To set or appoint beforehand; to settle or establish
antecedently. - That which is prefixed; esp., one or more letters or
syllables combined or united with the beginning of a word to modify its
signification; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure.
- Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive
denomination; denominative; naming. - Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class. - A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A
common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or
species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of
all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of
things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand,
stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie. - An appellation or title; a descriptive name.