Crossword clues for summoner
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beadle \Bea"dle\, n. [OE. bedel, bidel, budel, OF. bedel, F. bedeau, fr. OHG. butil, putil, G. b["u]ttel, fr. OHG. biotan, G. bieten, to bid, confused with AS. bydel, the same word as OHG. butil. See. Bid, 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.
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An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. [Eng.]
Note: In this sense the archaic spellings bedel (Oxford) and bedell (Cambridge) are preserved.
An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"petty officer who cites persons to appear in court," secular or ecclesiastical, early 14c. (mid-13c. as a surname), from Anglo-French sumenour, Old French somoneor, from Medieval Latin summonitorem, from past participle stem of summonere (see summon). Contracted form sumner is from mid-14c.
Wiktionary
n. one who summons or evokes
Wikipedia
Summoner may refer to:
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Summoner, an officer for a medieval ecclesiastical court
- The Summoner's Tale, from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; a tale by such an officer
- Summoner (video game), a third-person role-playing game, followed by a sequel
- Summoner (Wicca) or Fetch, a figure in a traditional Wiccan Coven
- The Summoner, a novel in the Chronicles of the Necromancer series by Gail Z. Martin
- Summoner, a character class in the Final Fantasy video game series
Summoner is a role-playing video game, developed by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ. It was released on October 26, 2000 as a launch title for the PlayStation 2 and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.
After the bankruptcy of THQ in December 2012, the Summoner franchise was acquired by Nordic Games, who have since published Summoner on GOG.com on February 25, 2014 and on Steam Digital Distribution platform on March 12, 2014.
The Summoner, sometimes called a Fetch is a position in many traditional Wiccan covens. The primary, or at least most evident, function of the Summoner is to call other coven members to a meeting or ritual. The summoner is also responsible for all inter-coven communication and traditionally is the only member of a coven who will know where other covens reside. (This tradition is generally not followed today and there is argument about to what extent it was ever followed.) In many covens the Summoner is always male and is considered the masculine equivalent of the maiden.
Historically it was the person who would let members know about covens and find new members in the community.
A summoner was an officer of an ecclesiastical court, usually that of a bishop or an archdeacon, whose job it was to deliver a summons to an offending member of the diocese. Offenses dealt with by such courts included "sins of immorality, witchcraft, usury, simony, neglect of the sacraments, and withholding tithes or offering".
Usage examples of "summoner".
Masters, Hand and Herbal, Summoner and Patterner, Windkey and Chanter, and the Namer, and the Changer.
I have to tell you, the job openings for an unproven Summoner are pretty slim.
Grounding them simply meant that they could not slip off to any other plane of existence without the Summoner first Releasing them.
Otherwise, as the Summoner, you have the power to bring the spirit to you simply by invoking their name.
As I was their Summoner, however, they were obligated to answer any questions I put to them.
Unfortunately, just as White and Tassalerro arrived to examine the bait, a plucky Summoner came to save me from the horrors of eternal torment.
There was a way for a Summoner to Release a cursed spirit, but as it involved calling up the demon that was used to enact the curse, I had little knowledge and even less experience in that area.
Those were the first words of grounding, of the way a Summoner bound a spirit.
He had thought well of the boy, and offered to write the Summoner about him, and then at the first test of character Diamond had broken.
Masters, since a new Master Summoner had been chosen, a strong man in his prime, not likely to retire or die.
The Summoner would send gifted students to him, but many of the boys there scarcely knew of him.
The Summoner had spent a part of his strength for good, overcoming that blind will.
So we set off looking for him, the Summoner to the eastern isles and I to the west.
Yet that the Summoner should do so continued to shock and disturb her as she thought about it.
Leading them was Thorion the Summoner, tall in his grey cloak, carrying his tall staff of bone-white wood, about which a faint gleam of werelight hovered.