All 8 Uses of
summon
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- And He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek....And when He has done with all of them, then He will summon us.†
Chpt 1.2summon = call forth; or call to come
- A summons to the police office, of course.†
Chpt 2.1summons = calls forth; or a document calling to come
- It was an ordinary summons from the district police-station to appear that day at half-past nine at the office of the district superintendent.†
Chpt 2.1
- I was summoned...by a notice...†
Chpt 2.1 *summoned = called forth; or called to come
- We therefore summon you, hereupon.†
Chpt 2.1summon = call forth; or call to come
- That threat to go away is equivalent to a threat to abandon you both if you are disobedient, and to abandon you now after summoning you to Petersburg.†
Chpt 3.3summoning = calling forth; or calling to come
- When next morning at eleven o'clock punctually Raskolnikov went into the department of the investigation of criminal causes and sent his name in to Porfiry Petrovitch, he was surprised at being kept waiting so long: it was at least ten minutes before he was summoned.†
Chpt 4.5summoned = called forth; or called to come
- At that moment he was summoned to Porfiry Petrovitch.†
Chpt 4.5
Definition:
to call to appear, come, or take action -- often used for official or serious situations, including legal notices or emotional/spiritual urges