Definition of summon

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Summoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Summo.

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Parliament :: Parliament (n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws..
Minaret :: Minaret (n.) A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin..
Summons :: Summons (v.) The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty..
Outrider :: Outrider (n.) A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff.
Conjure :: Conjure (v. t.) To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.
Latitat :: Latitat (n.) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.
Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc..
Specially :: Specially (adv.) For a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned..
Knoll :: Knoll (v. t.) To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing..
Advoke :: Advoke (v. t.) To summon; to call.
Evocate :: Evocate (v. t.) To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons..
Evoke :: Evoke (v. t.) To call out; to summon forth.
Writ :: Writ (n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like..
Summoner :: Summon (v. t.) To call upon to surrender, as a fort..
Sist :: Sist (v. t.) To cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court..
Call :: Call (n.) A divine vocation or summons.
Venire Facias :: Venire facias () A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also venire.
Charm :: Charm (n.) To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic..
Recall :: Recall (v. t.) To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador..
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