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Summons   /sˈəmənz/   Listen
Summons

noun
(pl. summonses)
1.
A request to be present.  Synonym: bidding.
2.
An order to appear in person at a given place and time.
3.
A writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant.  Synonym: process.
verb
1.
Call in an official matter, such as to attend court.  Synonyms: cite, summon.


Summon

verb
(past & past part. summoned; pres. part. summoning)
1.
Call in an official matter, such as to attend court.  Synonyms: cite, summons.
2.
Ask to come.
3.
Gather or bring together.  Synonyms: come up, muster, muster up, rally.  "She rallied her intellect" , "Summon all your courage"
4.
Make ready for action or use.  Synonyms: marshal, mobilise, mobilize.



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"Summons" Quotes from Famous Books



... had not answered any of Jeb's calls for him. At the time of his chief's last summons he was a couple of hundred feet from the buildings, tearing and tugging at one of the overflow tents. Like a madman and with a strength born of desperation he dragged the pole down and, wrenching the stakes out of the ground by main force, ...
— Tom Slade at Temple Camp • Percy K. Fitzhugh
... bodyguards then on duty forget to accord the royal salute to Anuti upon his entrance. We were informed that the body of the queen was in her sleeping chamber, and thither we hastened, to find the apartment in possession of about a dozen physicians, who had hurried to the palace upon the summons of the chief lady-in-waiting, and who had just completed their examination of the body. They all agreed that death was the result of poison, self-administered; and indeed there seemed to be no room for any other conclusion, for when the corpse was discovered a tiny flask was found tightly ...
— Through Veld and Forest - An African Story • Harry Collingwood
... a louis between his thumb and fore-finger, the nails of which are long and dirty.... The music is always playing.... The little girl from Brittany is again alone in the corner. There is fear in her face. She is beginning to know. She summons her courage and walks to the door, on through.... The agent de service twirls his moustache and points after her. "She soon will know." I follow. She hesitates for a second at the street door and then ...
— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten
... neighbor to do the sword-swallowing act involuntarily and disastrously with his knife, or—you don't eat. Frosty and I had walked down to the ferry-crossing while we waited, and then were late getting into the game when we heard the summons. ...
— The Range Dwellers • B. M. Bower
... of gladness, so intense that it was almost rapture, made her blood flow faster. He was coming in answer to her desperate summons. He would be with her that very day. She was sure that he would tell her ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell


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