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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)
  • A call to do something, especially to come.
  • * Hallam
    • special summonses by the king
  • * Bishop Fell
    • this summons unfit either to dispute or disobey
  • * Sir J. Hayward
    • He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon was regarded.
  • (legal) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
  • (military) A demand for surrender.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • 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

    • See also

    * ("summons" on Wikipedia) *

    Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (summon)

    • beck

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Cognate with low German bek or beck

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
  • * Drayton
    • The brooks, the becks , the rills.
    Synonyms
    * brook * burn * creek * stream

    Etymology 2

    A shortened form of (beckon), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
    • To be at the beck and call of someone.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
  • * Shakespeare
    • When gold and silver becks me to come on.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, title=Winter Evening Tales, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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. }}

    Etymology 3

    See back.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vat.

    • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Spenser)