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Summonses

Summons \Sum"mons\, n.; pl. Summonses. [OE. somouns, OF. sumunse, semonse, semonce, F. semonce, semondre to summon, OF. p. p. semons. See Summon, v.]

  1. 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.

    Special summonses by the king.
    --Hallam.

    This summons . . . unfit either to dispute or disobey.
    --Bp. Fell.

    He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon was regarded.
    --Sir J. Hayward.

  2. (Law) 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.

  3. (Mil.) A demand to surrender.

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summonses

n. (plural of summons English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: summons)

Usage examples of "summonses".

Then there are the two summonses to appear before the Commissioners next Thursday.

The two summonses to appear before the Commissioners were not particularly serious.

The summonses were issued when the Inland Revenue thought a particular set of accounts was long overdue: a sort of goad to action.

The two summonses in question had arrived after Trevor had left for his holidays, which was why he hadn’t dealt with them himself.

Over eight thousand summonses went out, but the SS has contracted with the Rcichsbahn, the German railroad company, for exactly seven thousand five hundred transportees.

A transport official, the same redheaded man who distributed summonses, tells them that they are now "the reserve.

Sinnall answered and satisfied several official summonses before he made a turn into a pattern at the Central Barracks landing field.

By the time they moved to the larger, shielded apartment, he was accustomed to the notion and, since Dorotea made no more frantic summonses, succeeded in ignoring it.

But, knowing that I had deliberately disregarded her summonses, I took the tongue lashing in silence, and took some consolation in the fact that she had to crane her neck at an awkward angle to berate me.

I have summonses for Fontaine and Ministiera, as witnesses tomorrow morning.