All 8 Uses of
summon
in
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- The chief councillor went at once to the nearest radiotelephone and summoned the RCMP, but no one has come yet.†
Chpt 1.2summoned = called forth; or called to come
- The hospital ship was in Seymour Inlet, too far to come quickly, and a bush plane, if he could manage to summon one by the radio-telephone on the boat, could not land on the river at night.†
Chpt 1.7summon = call forth; or call to come
- He and Jim had returned from the patrol and had just tied up at the float when the radio-telephone began to beep, and they were summoned back to one of the other villages, where three children, left alone in their cedar house for a few moments, had tipped over a kerosene lamp and been burned to death.†
Chpt 1.7summoned = called forth; or called to come
- At eight, Mark was summoned by radiotelephone to Tumour Island to transport a sick child to the hospital at Alert Bay, and when this was done, a gale was blowing, and it was too rough to return to Kingcome, so they tied up at the dock, the boat rolling in the swell.†
Chpt 2.9
- He pulled on his pants and his shoes in the dark, and snatched his jacket, and followed the Indian who had come to summon him into the night to the house of Gordon's mother, up the steps and in the door.†
Chpt 2.11summon = call forth; or call to come
- In the early dawn Mark and Jim went down the river to the boat to summon the police by radiotelephone and to send word of the death to the fishing boats in River's Inlet, so that the male relatives would come, stopping first at Alert Bay for the box in which to bury her.†
Chpt 2.11
- Since his boat was the fastest, Mark was summoned to aid in the search.
Chpt 4.22 *summoned = called (to come out and)
- The RCMP had been summoned, the Bishop notified.†
Chpt 4.23summoned = called forth; or called to come
Definition:
to call forth
The exact meaning of summon can depend upon its context. For example:
- "summon to court" -- officially demand that someone appear in court (call them to court)
- "summon the team to a meeting" -- call upon the team members to attend a meeting
- "summon help" -- call others to come and help
- "summon her courage" -- call forth her courage from within