Definition of Summoning

1. Noun. Calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations.

Exact synonyms: Evocation
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

summiteers
summities
summiting
summitless
summitries
summitry
summits
summity
summon
summonable
summoned
summoner
summoners
summonest
summoneth
summoning
summons
summonsed
summonses
summonsing
summum bonum
summum genus
sumners
sumo
sumo wrestler
sumoist
sumoists
sumos
sumotori
sumotoris

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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