▪ I. † ˈgaincall, n. Obs. rare.
[f. gain- 1 + call n.]
A calling out against; a counter-prayer, opposition.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 28783 Quat bot a prai for þi welle Ano er prai for þin vn-sele,..For if þai [? read he, sc. god] here þe tan mai fall, Þe tother him lettes wit his gain call. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 664 Without ony gane-call, In that counsall tha war maid erlis all. |
▪ II. † ˈgaincall, v. Obs. rare.
[f. gain- 3 + call v.]
1. trans. To revoke, retract, withdraw.
| 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 196 He thocht he wald ganecall That he had said, and wirk ane vther way. |
2. To bring back again, recall.
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvii. (1632) 894 Sith things past cannot be gaine-called. |
3. To call to mind.
| 1434 Misyn Mending of Life 115 Fantasy of syn he gedyrs to-gidyr of old schrewdnes & likynge of luf past he gayn⁓cals. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 542 The skayth pertenis to ws all, The quhilk this tyme that ȝe sould nocht ganecall. |
Hence † ˈgaincalling vbl. n., Sc. Law, withdrawing, revocation.
| 1489 Acta Audit. (1839) 142/1 Þat þe forsaid partiis sall stand at þar deliuerance Irrevocabilly but ony ganecalling. 1549 Sc. Acts Mary (1814) II. 602 And ordains þe samyne to stand in strenth, force, and effect in all tyme cuming, w'out ony gancalling, reuocatioune or retractatioune. |