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A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A summons; a citation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A summoner. [Obs.]

To summon; to cite. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A summoner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

For a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned.

y, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc. "Write it then, quickly," replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired. Fuller.

f; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Shak.

A summoner. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

er of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons.

e in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. Blount. Blackstone. (b) syntactically sing.

nk frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness. Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets. Macaulay.

To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing. When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells. Dryden.

On the day after the present day; on the next day; on the morrow. Summon him to-morrow to the Tower. Shak.

a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth East and west and south and north, To summon his array. Macaulay. -- Trysting place, a place designated for the assembling of soldiers, the meeting of parties for an interview, or the like; a rendezvous. Byron.

A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also venire.

places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity; as, a jury must be of the vicinage. "To summon the Protestant gentleman of the vicinage." Macaulay. Civil war had broken up all the usual ties of vicinage and good neighborhood. Sir W. Scott.

A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession. What can be urged for them who not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous Dryden.

To call; to summon. [Obs.] [They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers. Sir T. Elyot.