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summoned

[suhm-uhn]

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verb (used with object)

to call upon to do something specified.

to call for the presence of, as by command, message, or signal; call.

to call or notify to appear at a specified place, especially before a court: to summon a defendant.

to authorize or order a gathering of; call together by authority, as for deliberation or action: to summon parliament.

to call into action; rouse; call forth (often. followed by up): to summon all one's courage.

Origin:
1175–1225; < Medieval Latin summonēre to summon, Latin: to remind unofficially, suggest, equivalent to sum- sum- + monēre to remind, warn; replacing Middle English somonen < Old French semondre, somondre < Vulgar Latin *summonere, Latin summonēre, as above

Related forms

sum·mon·a·ble, adjective

sum·mon·er, noun

re·sum·mon, verb (used with object)

un·sum·mon·a·ble, adjective

un·sum·moned, adjective

Synonyms
1-3. See call.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Shouting ensued, and the police were summoned to restore.

Once again, a considerable imaginative as well as physical effort is being summoned.

Archeologists were summoned to check the mummies, he added.

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Shouting ensued, and the police were summoned to restore.

Once again, a considerable imaginative as well as physical effort is being summoned.

Archeologists were summoned to check the mummies, he added.

If the answers were not forthcoming, the guiding spirits could be summoned by a shaman.

Since keys to the safe could not be found, a locksmith had been summoned.

Kindle's main menu adapts to the context, and is summoned by hitting the unit's clickwheel.

The police summoned him several times to warn him to cease his activities.

In keeping with an ancient ritual, a musician must be summoned to perform a ceremony.

The horseshoe crabs come from the deep, summoned by the big spring tides.

If a person circles an arm above the head, the robot understands it is being summoned.

Backhoes and bulldozers were summoned to clear county roads of windblown dirt.

Find a rock stacker and take your kids to see how beauty and delight can be summoned with almost nothing but rocks.

The fire brigade from the township below was summoned by a mobile phone call.

Some were fighting round the electric bells, trying to summon trains which could not be summoned.

Beglinger helped direct the effort and stayed in constant communication with the seven rescue helicopters he'd summoned by radio.

Ford was the right man summoned at the right time to begin the necessary process of healing a country exhausted by war.

Tall and thin, a young man with fragile features is summoned by army officers.

Yet only recently has the field summoned the will--and the.

John's, archaeologists were summoned to investigate the site.

Around the world, spirits are summoned with drums, dance and song to carry participants into altered states of consciousness.

Staff at a local community college where he studied until last year summoned the police five times in response to his outbursts.

The police and ambulance were summoned immediately, but there was a twenty-minute wait before their arrival.

Congress has summoned executives from these firms for pillorying.

Clarke was left alone overnight while her husband was summoned to an emergency in the city, and she descended into madness.

Some days ago he announced that he had summoned experts.

Witherbce of this city, were at the bedside when she died, having been summoned in haste from this city.

They can also be summoned from their parking places using a mobile phone.

He was found in his room by his wife, and a physician was immediately summoned.

If a particular plant is getting a bit dry, one of the robots is summoned to water.

She may be summoned to work at any hour, even two in the morning, depending on when the fishing fleet comes in.

My parents were having a dinner party, and a guest was summoned to a call.

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Word Origin & History

summon

c.1200, from Anglo-Fr., O.Fr. sumundre "summon," from V.L. *summundre "to call, cite," from L. summonere "hint to," from sub "under" + monere "warn, advise" (see monitor). Summons "authoritative call to be at a certain place for a certain purpose" is late 13c., from O.Fr.

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sumunse, noun use of fem. pp. of somondre. Summoner "petty officer who cites persons to appear in court" is from early 14c.; contracted form sumner is from mid-14c.

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