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† ˈsomner Obs.
Forms: α. 4 som(e)nour, 5 somenor, 6 sommenor. β. 4 somenere, 4, 6–7 somner.
[f. somene somne v.2, or a. AF. somnour.]
An official summoner. Also transf.
αc1320Pol. Songs (Camden) 157 Ȝet ther sitteth somenours syexe other sevene. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 128 Sectoures and sudenes, somnoures and her lemmannes. 1474Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 350 Walter Wotlon somenor. 1570Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1838) 342 John Roddh'm the sommenr.
β1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iii. 59 Sysours and somners, shereyues and here clerkes. Ibid. x. 263 Hure salue ys of supersedeas in someneres boxes. 1521Coventry Leet-Bk. 672 At suche tymes as they shal-be Reasonably warnyd by the somner. 1563Homilies ii. Of Repentance iii, When the hyghest somner of all, whiche is death, shall come. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. xviii. 105 [They] haue like vnto Somners, as many brybes as they can carry away. 1608Middleton Trick to catch Old One ii. i, They may do anything there, and fear neither beadle nor somner. |