summons

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmənz/

From Old French sumunce (modern French semonce), from Vulgar Latin *summonsa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of summoneō, summonēre (“to summon”).

summons (plural summonses)

1. A call to do something, especially to come.
   • Hallam

     special summonses by the king

   • Bishop Fell

     this summons […] unfit either to dispute or disobey

   • Sir J. Hayward

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

2. (law) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
3. (military) A demand for surrender.

• → Malay: saman
  • → English: saman

summons (third-person singular simple present summonses, present participle summonsing, simple past and past participle summonsed)

1. (transitive) To serve someone with a summons.
   • 2007, It proposes that those held in the prototype Selfridges cells be kept for a maximum of four hours to have their identity confirmed and be charged, summonsed or given a fine. — The Guardian, 15 Mar 2007, p. 1

• summons on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Summons in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Inflected forms.

summons

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of summon

• musmons