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Churchgoing :: Churchgoing (a.) Summoning to church.

Ban :: Ban (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army..

Summonses :: Summoner (v. t.) One who summons; one who cites by authority; specifically, a petty officer formerly employed to summon persons to appear in court; an apparitor..

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..

Citation :: Citation (n.) An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.

Posse Comitatus :: Posse comitatus () The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed..

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc..

Invocation :: Invocation (n.) A call or summons; especially, a judicial call, demand, or order; as, the invocation of papers or evidence into court..

Toll :: Toll (v. t.) To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing..

Evocate :: Evocate (v. t.) To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke.

Somner :: Somner (n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court..

Interpellation :: Interpellation (n.) A official summons or citation.

Call :: Call (v. t.) To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant..

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..

Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To summon; to challenge.

Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties..

Conjure :: Conjure (v. t.) To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.

Warn :: Warn (v. t.) To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house..

Calling :: Calling (n.) A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament..

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

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