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summoned

[ suhm-uhnd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

having been called on, called forward, or ordered to come, especially for a specific purpose or to a specific place, such as a court of law:
The officers are responsible for presenting the summoned person immediately to a judge.
The summoned experts congratulated one another on the prosperity and soundness of the business—just one month before the crisis erupted.
having been called forth by magic, as from a supernatural or demoniac realm:
This scrap of parchment suggests that the queen spider is a summoned creature who has been trapped in the cave by a magical symbol painted on the wall.

He has been summoned from the command post the NYPD has maintained for a decade just up the street.

So outraged he swung into action and summoned the former Baltimore Ravens running back to the NFL Vatican on Park Avenue.

The father gave her a turkey and continued on, having summoned the very best in himself after the worst hurt a father can suffer.

Shostakovich was briefly in Moscow, and he was summoned to the theater.

ISIS had summoned him from the Talesh area in the Guilan province north of Tehran, to perform the unholy duty.

He who has attained it grows giddy, and the fiercest winds are summoned to blow him from his eminence.

With unbreathing silence, and a heart into which all that was man within him was summoned, he followed his conductor.

That lasted almost two months, and he summoned witnesses, and many of them, who told all that they knew about me.

He had me summoned by edicts and proclaimed through the public streets, an action that has scandalized this community.

Accordingly one Priest was immediately summoned from Aquitaine, and another was chosen in France.

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