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Challenge :: Challenge (n.) An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons..

Resummons :: Resummons (n.) A second summons.

Vocation :: Vocation (n.) A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession..

Surrender :: Surrender (v. i.) To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons..

Call :: Call (n.) The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call..

Sumner :: Summons (v. t.) To summon.

Calling :: Calling (n.) A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called..

Accite :: Accite (v. t.) To cite; to summon.

Interpellation :: Interpellation (n.) A official summons or citation.

Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties..

Conjure :: Conjure (v. t.) To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.

Co-respondent :: Co-respondent (n.) One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.

Summon :: Summon (v. t.) To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses..

Ban :: Ban (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army..

Repeal :: Repeal (v. t.) To recall; to summon again, as persons..

Somner :: Somner (n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court..

Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To summon; to challenge.

Call :: Call (n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty..

Vouch :: Vouch (v. t.) To call; to summon.

Invoke :: Invoke (v. t.) To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing..

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