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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
summons
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
answer
▪ Anyone who failed to answer the summons was liable to be beaten.
▪ Not to answer the summons made matters worse, as it had always done, and particularly if it concerned a mortgage.
▪ She had all but crawled downstairs to answer the imperative summons, yawning as she tugged open the door.
appear
▪ But he almost always gave the defendant a second chance, and sent him a second summons to appear the following week.
▪ But in February, 1991, he received a summons to appear before magistrates on an allegation that he owed £269.40.
issue
▪ The statement said that, having considered the application, the magistrates had refused to issue the summons.
▪ The court then issues the summons and serves it on your debtor, usually by post.
▪ Magistrates threw out his first attempt by refusing to issue a summons.
▪ Dunn should then have returned his reply to the court that issued the summons.
▪ It is still necessary to issue a summons for directions in an admiralty or medical negligence case.
receive
▪ I first learnt of it when, dining one night in a London restaurant, I received an urgent summons from Harold.
▪ And before long we will be receiving a summons from him, or I miss my guess.
▪ But in February, 1991, he received a summons to appear before magistrates on an allegation that he owed £269.40.
▪ It had been a long time since I had received such a summons.
▪ Now, he has received another summons, claiming £89.90 is owed.
▪ A few days later he received a summons to interrogation by one of these officers, which he refused to attend.
▪ Early in October, after receiving the summons to return to Out Patients, feeling none too well, I capitulated once again.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
serve a summons/writ etc
▪ In some ways it's like serving a writ, only in this circumstance it's entirely beneficial to the recipient.
▪ Voice over Jaguar has already served a writ on one customer who withdrew his order.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In answer to Grant's summons, Larsen had turned up accompanied by ten well muscled companions.
▪ It was a summons, not a request.
▪ It was a vexatious summons, and none of them turned up.
▪ Official Solicitor's costs in originating summons.
▪ So he awaited his summons without impatience.
▪ The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Frequently Sereny is in inner dialogue with Speer or summons him as witness.
▪ I have never had occasion to effect an arrest nor to summons any person.
▪ The police had summonsed the wrong man, and the court dismissed the case against him.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Summons

Summons \Sum"mons\, v. t. To summon. [R. or Colloq.]
--Swift.

Summons

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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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
summons

"authoritative call to be at a certain place for a certain purpose," late 13c., from Old French sumunse, noun use of fem. past participle of somondre (see summon (v.)). As a verb from 1650s.

Wiktionary
summons

Etymology 1 n. 1 A call to do something, especially to come. 2 (context legal English) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness. 3 (context military English) A demand for surrender. vb. (context transitive English) To serve someone with a summons. Etymology 2

vb. (en-third-person singular of: summon)

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WordNet
summons

  1. n. a request to be present; "they came at his bidding" [syn: bidding]

  2. an order to appear in person at a given place and time

  3. a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant [syn: process]

  4. v. call in an official matter, such as to attend court [syn: summon, cite]

Wikipedia
Summons

Legally, a summons (also known in England and Wales as a claim form and in the Australian state of New South Wales as a Court Attendance Notice (CAN)) is a legal document issued by a court (a judicial summons) or by an administrative agency of government (an administrative summons) for various purposes.

Summons (disambiguation)

A summons is a legal document issued by a court.

Summons may also refer to:

  • Evocation, the act of conjuring supernatural creatures
  • Arthur Summons (born 1935), Australian representative rugby union and rugby league player
  • The Summons, a legal thriller novel
  • The Summons (hymn), a Christian hymn
  • Summons of the Lord of Hosts, a Bahá'í holy text
  • Zhao Hun, a Chinese poem known in English as "Summons of the Soul"
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Usage examples of "summons".

If anyone could call up demons any time they wanted, the demons would get highly pissed off and stroppy and work out ways to counteract the summonses.

Sands Point headquarters of the greaseballs, with the Task Force monitoring the summonses and subsequent telephone conversations.

And then Nest would call for her mother, and Eleanor would go and invent some strange story about the summonses Edward had had to Caernarvon assizes, or to Harlech cattle market.

Two other summonses were issued against me, and before I knew what was going on a warrant was issued for my arrest.

It was a standard practice—with some quite unstan-dard variations—for the women of the saishan to use their castrates to give them physical release if too much time went by between summonses to the other wing.

No drunk arrests--the Lincoln Heights drunk tank had flooded during the recent heavy rains--and lots of traffic summonses.

Robot clerks tick off the fines paid and send out summonses to defaulters.

Not sure you couldn't be summonsed for libel, or slander, or something.

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.