summoning

Verb

summon (third-person singular simple present summons, present participle summoning, simple past and past participle summoned)

1. (transitive) To call people together; to convene; to convoke.
   • Silence is primary, summoning presence to itself; so it's a connection to the realm of origin.2007, John Zerzan, Silence
2. (transitive) To ask someone to come; to send for.
   • The cousins separated, and Nain Singh joined a caravan posing as a merchant. This time he crossed the border successfully. Singh eventually entered Jih-k’a-tse, the second-largest city in Tibet. It was in Jih-k’a-tse that he was summoned to meet the country’s second-highest religious authority, the...1995, Explorers & Discoverers, volume 2, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 753
3. To order (goods) and have delivered
   • You can summon groceries, alcohol and medicines to your home: chips and vodka on New Year’s Eve, say, and then aspirin on New Year’s Day.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
4. (transitive) To rouse oneself to exert a skill.
   • For securing the attainment of what he considered to be a most desirable end, he summoned all his abilities with a most praiseworthy energy and perseverance.1866, Pierre Bigandet, The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese, with annotations and notice on the Phongyies or Burmese monks, page 396

   Synonyms:

   summon up, muster, muster up, draw

5. (transitive) To call a resource by magic.
   • “Why won't you teach me to summon water? I can summon fire so easily, it's only logical that I should learn to put out my mistakes.”2010, Kay Hooper, The Wizard of Seattle, Fanfare, →ISBN
6. (transitive) To summons; convene.

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