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summons(1)(dictionary)

summons(1) (iou) and nasion-postcondylar plane (medicine)


summons(1) (iou)



summons noun. ME.
[Old French somonce, sumunse (mod. semonce) from Proto-Gallo-Romance alt. of Latin summonita use as noun of fem. pa. pple of summonere SUMMON verb: cf. SUMMONER.]
An authoritative call to attend on some occasion. ME.
b. spec. A call by writ to bishops, earls, barons, etc., to attend the national council or parliament. Also, the call to a peerage. ME.
A call by authority to appear before a court or judicial officer; the writ by which such a call is made. ME.
b. Scots Law. A writ issued by the Court of Session under the royal signet, or, if in a sheriff court, in the name of the sheriff. E17.
c. In judges' chambers, the means by which one party brings the Other before a judge to settle details in a suit. Now chiefly in summons for directions. E19.
gen. An urgent call or command (to do something); a summoning sound, knock, etc. M16.
Saki Lancelot entered in response to a..friendly summons to 'come in'.
Military. An act of summoning a place to surrender. E17.

nasion-postcondylar plane (medicine)


nasion-postcondylar plane


A plane passing through the nasion anteriorly and to a point immediately behind each condylar process of the mandible, posteriorly.