Summons vs Invite - What's the difference?
summons | invite |
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)
To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
To request formally.
To encourage.
* 1902 , Roosevelt,
To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
* Milton
* Dryden
* Cowper
As verbs the difference between summons and invite
is that summons is to serve someone with a summons or summons can be (summon) while invite is .As a noun summons
is a call to do something, especially to come.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)invite
English
Verb
- We invited our friends round for dinner.
- I invite you all to be seated.
- I always invite criticism of my definitions.
- Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
- The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
- to inveigle and invite the unwary sense
- shady groves, that easy sleep invite
- There no delusive hope invites despair.