Definition of Summons

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Summons

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.

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.

A demand to surrender.

To summon.

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Summons Quotations

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
Charles R. Swindoll

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
Agatha Christie

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
Billy Sunday

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
John Irving

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
William Feather

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
Frederick Buechner

Summons Translations

summons in Afrikaans is dagvaarding
summons in Dutch is dagvaarding, exploot, assignatie
summons in French is convoque, convocation
summons in Latin is citatio, citatus

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