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/sˈəmənɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Summon v. t. (past & past part. summoned; pres. part. summoning)

To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; often with up. "Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood." "Trumpets summon him to war."

To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses.

(Mil.) To call upon to surrender, as a fort.

Synonyms: To call; cite; notify; convene; convoke; excite; invite; bid. See Call.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Summoning" Quotes from Famous Books

... smiled again. "Quite so!" they said. "We received this year imperial orders, summoning us to ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... debauch. Rokuzo is not one to be tempted by women; and to those beyond his station he dares not raise his eyes. It was the wine which tempted him beyond discretion. He has tried all patience, been most disloyal. The honoured dismissal or severe punishment at the least is his due. The Tono Sama summoning him to the garden front, and deigning the kindness of putting him to death (te-uchi) ... yet...." Hesitating he brought out the once hana-furi-kin, wage of the unfortunate Rokuzo, now in such danger of drastic ...

— Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville

... bottomless pit, we should thrust them out to grasp it. But in regard to the smaller commonplace matters of daily life, too, we all know that there are whole regions of our lives which seem to us to be so small that it is hardly worth while summoning the august thought of 'right or wrong?' to decide them. Yes, and a thousand smugglers that go across a frontier, each with a little package of contraband goods that does not pay any duty, make a large ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... in the ensuing boohoo, which went on and on till Laura thought the Uncle would fall down in a fit. Then for the third time he invited those present to join him in summoning the cats, murmured something about "humping his bluey", and went out into the hall, where they heard him swinging ...

— The Getting of Wisdom • Henry Handel Richardson

... made another attack upon his enemy by summoning Coke before the Star Chamber on a charge of breaking into a private house with violence. On receiving this summons, Coke wrote to Buckingham, who was with the King in the North, complaining that his wife, the Withipoles, and their confederates, had conveyed his "dearest ...

— The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck - A Scandal of the XVIIth Century • Thomas Longueville

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