Summons vs Beck - What's the difference?
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A call to do something, especially to come.
* Hallam
* Bishop Fell
* Sir J. Hayward
(legal) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
(military) A demand for surrender.
To serve someone with a summons.
* 2007', It proposes that those held in the prototype Selfridges cells be kept for a maximum of four hours to have their identity confirmed and be charged, '''summonsed or given a fine. — ''The Guardian , 15 Mar 2007, p. 1
(summon)
(Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
* Drayton
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
(archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
* Shakespeare
*{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, title=Winter Evening Tales, chapter=, edition=
, passage="I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Various, title=The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing. }}
Summons is a related term of beck.
As a noun summons
is a call to do something, especially to come.As a verb summons
is to serve someone with a summons or summons can be (summon).As a proper noun beck is
a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist günther von mannagetta und lërchenau beck (1856-1931).summons
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sumunce (modern French semonce), from popular (etyl) .Noun
(es)- special summonses by the king
- this summons unfit either to dispute or disobey
- He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon was regarded.
Verb
(es)See also
* ("summons" on Wikipedia) *Etymology 2
Inflected forms.Verb
(head)beck
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with low German bek or beckNoun
(en noun)- The brooks, the becks , the rills.
Synonyms
* brook * burn * creek * streamEtymology 2
A shortened form of (beckon), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- To be at the beck and call of someone.
Verb
(en verb)- When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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