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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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Etymology of 'Summoning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Summoning" Quotes from Famous Books

... the November hillside, when Caddie Sills had run past him at the Preaching Tree. This voice of Day's was like the voice sleeping in the great bronze horn hanging in a rack, which his father had used to call the hands to dinner. A little wind meant no sound, but a great effort, summoning all the breath in the body, made the brazen throat ring out like a ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... Nobody knows; but it's something awful—a mutiny, or shipwreck, or piracy. But there's your friend, the Commander, calling out the troops; and such a set of Christy Minstrels you never saw before! There's the Alcalde summoning the Council; there's Mr. Banks raving, and running round for a steamboat—as if these people ever heard of such a thing!—and Captain Bunker, what with rage and drink, gone off in a fit of delirium tremens, and locked up in his room! And the ...

— The Crusade of the Excelsior • Bret Harte

... is not legal, monsieur," she said desperately, summoning all her courage. "Tewfick Pasha has no right to ...

— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley

... Lucilla, the countess had thrown aside her veil, and the eyes of the soothsayer opened upon that superb beauty, which once to see was never to forget. Involuntarily she again closed her eyes, and groaned audibly; and then, summoning all her courage, she withdrew her hand from Constance's clasp, and bade her Moorish handmaid leave them once ...

— Godolphin, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... when after the last lesson had been read the minister came down to the font and said: "Any persons present having children to offer for baptism will now bring them forward," Hannah felt as if she would faint. But summoning all her resolution, she arose and came out of her pew, carrying the child. Every eye in the church turned full upon her. There was no harm meant in this; people will gaze at every such a little spectacle; a baby going to be baptized, if nothing else is to be had. But ...

— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

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