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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..

Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To bring to notice, deliver, or execute, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requires; as, to serve a summons..

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

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

Writ :: Writ (n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like..

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

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

Call :: Call (n.) A divine vocation or summons.

Citation :: Citation (n.) An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.

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

Ban :: Ban (n.) A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation..

Requisition :: Requisition (n.) A written or normal call; an invitation; a summons; as, a reqisition for a public meeting..

Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) A summons to answer to a charge.

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

Contumacy :: Contumacy (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned..

Monition :: Monition (n.) A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.

Alarm :: Alarm (n.) A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy..

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..

Convocation :: Convocation (n.) The act of calling or assembling by summons.

Cital :: Cital (n.) Summons to appear, as before a judge..

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