SUMMONED Definition & Meaning

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summoned

[suhm-uhnd]

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adjective

having been called on, called forward, or ordered to come, especially for a specific purpose or to a specific place, such as a court of law.
The officers are responsible for presenting the summoned person immediately to a judge.
The summoned experts congratulated one another on the prosperity and soundness of the business—just one month before the crisis erupted.
having been called forth by magic, as from a supernatural or demoniac realm.
This scrap of parchment suggests that the queen spider is a summoned creature who has been trapped in the cave by a magical symbol painted on the wall.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of summon.

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

unsummoned adjective

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of summoned¹

summon ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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Last month Denmark's foreign minister summoned the US ambassador in Copenhagen, following a report in the Wall Street Journal alleging that US spy agencies were told to focus efforts on Greenland.

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The officers summoned a group of mounted officers, who trampled through traffic and knocked at least one protester down.

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Koffa and several other lawmakers were summoned to the Liberian National Police headquarters on Friday as "persons of interest" in the case, local media reports.

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But with the go-ahead run on second base in the eighth inning, Roberts summoned Freeman off the bench.

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The singer Taylor Swift had been summoned to a US court last month, after it was alleged she encouraged Baldoni to accept script rewrites by Lively.

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summon summons

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