5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.

What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

Acts x. 15.

6. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.

[The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.

Brougham.