Definition of summon

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Summon (v. t.) To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up..

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Beadle :: Beadle (v.) A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
Sommonour :: Sommonour (n.) A summoner.
Convocation :: Convocation (n.) The act of calling or assembling by summons.
Specially :: Specially (adv.) For a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned..
Calling :: Calling (n.) The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one..
Tales :: Tales (n.) Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter..
Summons :: Summons (v.) A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like..
Convent :: Convent (v. t.) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp/na..
Summon :: Summon (v. t.) To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses..
Convene :: Convene (v. t.) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
Requisition :: Requisition (n.) A written or normal call; an invitation; a summons; as, a reqisition for a public meeting..
Contumacy :: Contumacy (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned..
Resummon :: Resummon (v. t.) To summon again.
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..
Alarm :: Alarm (n.) A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy..
Surrender :: Surrender (v. i.) To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons..
Appearance :: Appearance (n.) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction..
Somonce :: Somonce (n.) A summons; a citation.
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