summoned

[suhm-uhnd]

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.

verb

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

Other Word Forms

• unsummoned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of summoned¹

summon ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Tenderly, Burns imagines her grandfather, part of the Windrush generation, being summoned back to heaven by God, the reward for a life well lived.

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Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has summoned Governor Castro to a hearing on Monday to explain the police actions "in detail".

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"Shortly afterwards," it added, the operatives "summoned representatives of the Red Cross and staged a false display of discovering a deceased hostage's body."

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The investigating judge has summoned the three suspects to testify on November 12 in the case, initiated after a complaint by a pro-Palestinian association.

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Jim Crow sculptures summoned visual tradition as a prestige podium from which to rerun racist hate.

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