summoner

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noun

One who summons or evokes, particularly in legal contexts.

UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

nounsummoner (plural summoners)

plural summoners

  1. One who summons or evokes, particularly in legal contexts.
  2. historicalAn apparitor; an officer of an ecclesiastical court whose job it was to deliver a summons to an offending member of the diocese.
  3. A small bell for summoning an employee to provide service.

    And as they change, they set into bright relief not only outmoded honorifics and hunting horns, but silver summoners and mother-of-pearl opera glasses and all manner of carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness.

    2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, →ISBN, page 119

Origin

Translations

Ancient Greek κλητήρ
  • κλητήρ (klētḗr)one who summons or evokes
Polish przywoływacz, przyzywacz
  • przywoływaczone who summons or evokes
  • przyzywaczone who summons or evokes
Portuguese evocador, invocador
  • evocadorone who summons or evokes
  • invocadorone who summons or evokes
Turkish çağırıcı
  • çağırıcıone who summons or evokes

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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