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Definition of Summoning
1. Noun. Calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations.
Generic synonyms: Conjuration, Conjuring, Conjury, Invocation
Group relationships: Dispossession, Exorcism
Derivative terms: Evoke, Summon
Definition of Summoning
1. Verb. (present participle of summon) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Summoning
1. summon [v] - See also: summon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Summoning
Literary usage of Summoning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey by Homer (1905)
"BOOK ELEVENTH THE summoning OF THE DEAD " BUT to the ship and shore descending
we Drew the ship first into the shining sea, And in the black ship put the ..."
2. The Solicitors' Journal & Reporter (1871)
"Seven clear days at least before the day of the meeting the summoning officer
... The summoning officer shall be the clerk of the Union of which any parish ..."
3. Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law by Simon van Leeuwen (1820)
"summoning defined. '2. How to be effected before superior and inferior Judges.
3. Of summoning out of a Jurisdiction by Notice delivered, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Railroads: Containing a Consideration of the by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott (1921)
"summoning the jury or commissioners.—The general rule is that the provisions of
the statute as to the appointment of commissioners or the summoning of a ..."
5. The Duties of Sheriffs, Coroners, and Constables by John G. Crocker (1855)
"FEES FOR summoning JURORS. <5 1108. For summoning each grand jury,7 $10 00 For
summoning grand and petit jurors for the Recorder's court of Oswego,7 2 00 ..."
6. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1914)
"he is afraid of exciting his expensive appetites, and summoning them as helpers
in his struggle, so that, in true oligarchical style, he carries on the war ..."
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