summons
suh muhnz
- n a request to be present
- n an order to appear in person at a given place and time
- n a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
- v call in an official matter, such as to attend court
- v call in an official matter, such as to attend court
- v ask to come
- v gather or bring together
- v make ready for action or use
- Blood Meridian summons up shadows of Dante and Melville, and demands of every reader that they reexamine why and how they cling to morality in a fallen world.
- It was a journey into man's future, a hopeful but urgent summons, in Poet Archibald MacLeish's words, "to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright .
- It had to do with Justine herself, who always summons the strength to get away, always summons the resilience to question her fate and argue with the men when they justify .