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Read out a list of names to determine those present.
‘a gentleman proceeded to call over the names of the jury’
‘Under the new Act for regulating the trial of controverted elections, you will, in the discharge of your duty, call over the names in the alphabetical list of Members.’
‘In calling over the list every name is repeated, although three-fourths or more of the boys, whose names are called over, are present.’
‘It has been the practice of the House of Commons, on occasions of sufficient importance, to order that the House be called over at a future day.’
‘Charles Mansfield, our third lieutenant, came on deck, and called the list over.’