Wiktionary
call to account
vb. (context idiomatic English) To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for.
Usage examples of "call to account".
Fogg desired, sooner or later, to call to account for his conduct.
Still louder shouted Don Quixote, calling them knaves and traitors, and the lord of the castle, who allowed knights-errant to be treated in this fashion, a villain and a low-born knight whom, had he received the order of knighthood, he would call to account for his treachery.