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Definition of Summon

Summon

To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.

To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses.

To call upon to surrender, as a fort.

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Summon Quotations

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
John Burroughs

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Arthur Miller

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?
Mitch Daniels

I'm really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.
Cindy Sherman

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
Anne McCaffrey

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Piers Anthony

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.
Hart Crane

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Edna O'Brien

I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.
Peter Weir

We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.
John Hoeven

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
Samuel Chase

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Summon Translations

summon in Dutch is aanschrijven
summon in Finnish is kutsua
summon in French is appeler, convoquer, convoquez, convoquons
summon in German is auffordern, vorladen
summon in Italian is chiamare
summon in Latin is appello, voco, arcesso; accerso, invito
summon in Norwegian is kalle
summon in Portuguese is chame, chamar

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