summoned

American  

[suhm-uhnd] / ˈsʌm ənd /

adjective

1. 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.

2. 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.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of summon.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• unsummoned
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of summoned

summon ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

After five years in Los Angeles I’m summoned north for a job at the University of California.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

In the spring of 2021, a 25-year-old man was summoned to help a friend in a confrontation at a low-income housing development in Middletown, Connecticut.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Deputies have been summoned to a full session of the assembly on Tuesday morning to reinstate Sonko as a member of parliament and vote for a new speaker, said an official document published late Sunday.

From Barron's • May 24, 2026

It is 1941 and Neriya, a young Jewish girl in a Lithuanian shtetl, is being noisily summoned to the forest by a regular visitor to her house, a crow she calls Buster.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

They were not summoned by him but awakened by the humans’ celebration of all things dead.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman