Definition of "call forth" [call forth]

• To induce, inspire. (verb)

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• "The root of the Alizari (rubia tinctoria) is considered as an emenagogue by the nomadic Turucks, and during childbed the same remedy is resorted to to call forth the lochia when once checked."
• "While others required sad conditions to awaken their sympathies and set them to work, Thomas Gordon saw in every man something to arouse kindly interest and call forth the look, the word, or the hand, of sympathy, encouragement or help."
• "No, no; out of dastards and disgraces, fortunate are the wrongs that call forth stout and angry men; then is shown what stuff there is in a nation."