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Definition of Sumner
1. Noun. United States sociologist (1840-1910).
Definition of Sumner
1. n. A summoner.
Definition of Sumner
1. Proper noun. (surname A=An occupational from=Middle English dot=) for a summoner in court. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete form of summoner) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sumner
Literary usage of Sumner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"These bitter personalities led to the assault on Sumner on 22 May by Preston ...
The Senate had adjourned and Sumner was seated at his desk writing letters ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1898)
"College, Cambridge, during 1809-10, and in the latter year Sumner was ... In the
summer of 1814 Sumner accompanied Lord Mount-Charles (who had been a fellow ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"She further alleged that on November 7, 1903, upon her application, an order was
passed requiring JL Sumner, within 30 days thereafter, to pay her the ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"The action was originally brought by Mary J. Sumner, the present defendant in
error, against David K. Hill, plaintiff in error, in the District Court of ..."
5. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"On May 10, 1871 the Treaty was sent to the Senate and at once referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations of which Sumner was no longer the chairman or ..."
6. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"On May 10, 1871 the Treaty was sent to the Senate and at once referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations of which Sumner was no longer the chairman or ..."
7. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters (1873)
"Increase Sumner, of Great Harrington, Mass. A Funeral Discourse by \the~\ Rev.
... Increase Sumner, a son of Daniel and Hannah (Watson) Sumner (ante, ix. ..."
8. Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield ; with a Review of the by James Gillespie Blaine (1884)
"Charles Sumner was deposed from the chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, — a position he had held continuously since the Republican party ..."
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