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call to mind

verb

Definitions

  1. To intentionally think about

    To intentionally think about; to reflect upon.

    • […]she could take no rest: for if she waked, she began to call to minde his beautie, and thinking to beguile such thoughts with sleepe, she then dreamed of his perfection[…]
    • And so father, calling to mind his death on the cross, and his perfect sacrifice made once for the sins of all men; and […]

  2. To cause to think about

    To cause to think about; to evoke.

    • It is allowed that his tones are full and soft, and that his performance called to mind that of the celebrated Rhode;[…]
    • The painting calls to mind the description in Xenophon of how the animal was driven into the net and killed.
    • This sort of painting calls to mind what musicians call timbre.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA