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summonern.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French somenor. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman somenor, somenour, somoner, somonour, sumenour, somneur, somnour, sumnour (compare Old French somoneor , semoneor , Old French, Middle French semoneur ; Middle French, French †semonneur ) minor official who notifies a person to appear in court (c1100), (in extended use) person who issues an invitation (early 15th cent.) < the stem of somondre summon v. + -our -er suffix2. Compare summonder n.Specific forms. The β. forms reflect loss of the unstressed medial vowel. The γ. forms (which do not have a parallel in French) reflect the development of an epenthetic glide consonant in the cluster -mn- . With forms in -or and -our compare -or suffix and -our suffix. Earlier use as surname. Attested earlier as a surname (frequently from the end of the 12th cent. in British sources, e.g. Robert le Sumonur (1199), Matthew le Sumener (1230), Milone le Sumenur (1246–7), William le Sumnir (1279)), although such early examples may reflect currency of the Anglo-Norman rather than the Middle English word. c1300 (c1280) (Harl. 2277) f. 5v At tenebres tyme me wole men to churche bringe Wiþ stones & wiþ claperes, & no belle rinnge ffor þe somenours [a1325 Pepys 2344 sompnours] of holi churche. 2. society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > official who summons persons to court α. a1325 Statutes of Realm in f. 55 That he be þanne þer to heren þe reconisaunce ant that thou habbe þere þe somunurs ant this writ. c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss (1873) II. 33 (MED) Be it comaunded be the same ballyves to doon sommon by good sommonours [1350 BL Add. 25012 somenours] the same iurrours, that they bene att the next gret court folewyng. 1529–30 in H. Littlehales (1905) 349 Paid to a Somoner for Somenyng of Mr hiltons, preist ij d. 1651 tr. J. Kitchin 561 The Defendant averrs that the summoners now returned were not the summoners in Precipe. 1768 W. Blackstone iii. 279 Two of the sheriff's messengers called summoners. 1866 C. Kingsley II. i. 9 Neither summoner nor sheriff of the king..could enter there. 1915 30 201 Special abuses of the office of summoner..of the ecclesiastical courts during the period 1580-96 may have led to the revival of good old stories about wicked summoners. 2017 (Nexis) 28 July 7 Men of the cloth included summoners, pardoners, bishops, friars and monks. β. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland (Vernon) (1867) A. ii. l. 46 For Sisours, for Sumnors [B text c1400 Laud 581 sompnours, c1450 Rawl. sumpnoures; C text c1400 Huntington HM 137 somners], for Sullers, for Buggers.1521 672 At suche tymes as they shal-be Reasonably warnyd by the somner.1608 T. Middleton ii. sig. C3v They may do anything there man, and feare neither Beadle nor Somner.1776 J. Strutt III. 47 In his hand he [sc. a protestant] carries a taper of a pound weight, and behind the somner following, administers the cruel discipline.1887 H. Caine I. xii. 251 Next day the Bishop sent his sumner round the parish.1927 May 325/2 The armourer and the wright, the husbandman and the somner.γ. 1377 in C. Fenwick (2001) II. 579/3 Willelmo Sompnour.c1400 (a1376) W. Langland (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. iii. l. 123 Sisours & sompnours, suche men hire preisiþ.c1415 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer (Corpus Oxf.) (1868) l. 543 Ther was..A Sompnour and a Pardoner also.1490–1 in H. Littlehales (1905) 164 Paide to William Iames, Sompnour, for sompnyng of iij tenauntes that owed monye to the chyrch, x d.1631 J. Weever 45 The deuill in his conference with the Sompner.1717 J. Gay in (new ed.) 147 The Sompner leudly hath his Prologue told, And saine on the Freer's his Tale japing and bold.1860 G. A. Macfarren i. 15 The monk within his cell Lives merrily, but not so well As the Sompnour, who at large can roam, And always makes himself at home.1957 72 27 The Massachusetts colonists..did away with the familiar apparitors and sompnours of the ecclesiastical courts.1958 3 214 The Primate's ‘Sompner’ was always to be the erenagh of Donaghriske.1681 T. Denton Descr. Isle of Man in (1899) 3 442 They have a Register and Sumoners in ye nature of apparators, and they hold their Ecclesiastical Courts quarterly. a1731 G. Waldron Descr. Isle of Man 140 in (1731) An Officer.., called a Sumner, lays a Straw over his, or her Shoulder, and says, By virtue of this, you are Yarded for the Service of the Lord of Man. 1879 31 May 5/3 His Worship directed the Sumner to adjourn the Court until 10 o'clock the following morning. 1934 W. W. Gill ii. 123 Sumner (Summoner) was the Bishop's officer, whose duties..ranged from arresting delinquents..to expelling dogs from church on Sundays. 1957 72 42 There was a general sumner for the whole island, and there were local sumners. ?1387 T. Wimbledon (Corpus Cambr.) (1967) 99 Men schulleþ be clepid wiþ þre somoners..þe firste is sekenesse; þe secunde is elde; and þe þridde is deþ. a1400 Twelve Profits of Tribulation (Royal) in C. Horstmann (1896) II. 52 (MED) Put þou not þerfore þi gode sommoners: for why hit is saied, 'mykel is worþi in citee a gode summoner'. 1563 sig. Ddddd.iv.v When the hyghest somner of all, whiche is death, shall come, he wyll not be sayde naye. 1597 T. Middleton xvii. sig. X The darkesome clouds, are summoners of raine. 1629 W. Jeffray 70 Affliction is a harsh Summoner, yet he summons thee to Glory. 1754 ix. 137 Let them pray to put off the dreadful Summoner's Call. 1895 5 49 His tambourine is..a summoner of spirits. 1928 13 Oct. 13/4 It is..a patent blunder to use the same gong—or the same notes—as a summoner to varied activities. 2011 (Nexis) 16 July (Review) 3 Thinking about the old days and the power of music as a summoner of those days. society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > summons or summoning > one who summons 1799 C. B. Brown x. 110 He had not forgotten the awful charms of his summoner. 1832 A. E. Bray Let. in (1836) I. x. 184 The summoner appeared to be a strange, squint-eyed,..old fellow. 1897 E. W. B. Nicholson 31 The minister..followed his summoner to the basement of the castle. 1981 28 Mar. a23 I have been summoned in the dead of night to a country house outside Washington. I know the summoner as D. 2016 (Nexis) 16 May 24 His summoner was G. H. Hardy. society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > summons > summoning or issuing of summons > one who takes out summons 1865 3 Aug. 10/1 If he will not appear..the summoner can bring an action against the doctor, should he lose his cause. Derivatives 1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. iii. 38 in (ed. 2) An enchanted staff which the Devill summoner like, was us'd to deliver som market-women to ride upon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300 |