Summon: Definition and part of speech

Summon

  1. v. t. To call upon to surrender, as a fort.
  2. v. t. To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; — often with up.
  3. v. t. To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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