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    He missed homeroom because he was summoned to the vice-principal's office.  (source)
    summoned = called (to appear)
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    He took a breath, summoned his courage, and continued.  (source)
    summoned = called forth (from within)
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    One afternoon, on a visit to his family, he had summoned up the courage to tell his father that he didn't want to become a priest.  (source)
    summoned = called forth (gathered from within)
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    He summoned his courage.  (source)
    summoned = called forth (gathered from within)
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    Why would anybody want to summon a monster?  (source)
    summon = called forth
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    When he threw the latch, the thumper would begin its summons.  (source)
    summons = call (to come)
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    "Excuse me," I said, summoning all my courage, "but why do you call them Little People?"  (source)
    summoning = calling forth (from within)
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    Since sore he was summon'd, a night of sweet easement.†  (source)
    summon'd = called forth; or called to come
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    His summoner received him gravely, and motioned him to a chair.†  (source)
    summoner = someone who calls forth
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    Piles of legal documents began arriving almost daily at Deborah's door: summonses and petitions and updates and motions.†  (source)
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    There rose before his eyes, unsummoned, vistas of old stones and riverbanks, the pigeons of the Palais-Royal, the Gare du Nord, quiet old streets round the Pantheon, and many another scene of the city he'd never known he loved so much, and these mental pictures killed all desire for any form of action.†  (source)
    unsummoned = not called forth; or called to come
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsummoned means not and reverses the meaning of summoned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    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.†  (source)
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    Even in her likeness fair Aphrodite spake: "Come hither; Alexandros summoneth thee to go homeward.†  (source)
    summoneth = calls forth
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She summoneth" in older English, today we say "She summons."
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