v. Obs. Also 5 sompny. [Variant of SOMNE v.2, with insertion of p as in nempne NEMN v.] trans. To summon.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. II. 142. Þus sysoures ben sompned þe false to serue.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 151. He schal be sompned, ponyschid & cursed.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Friar’s T., 49 (Harl.). Withoute maundement, a lewed man He couthe sompne.
14[?]. Lat.-Eng. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 573. Cito, to sompny.
1471. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 309. The seriaunt shal sompne ony suche att his house.
Hence † Sompning vbl. sb. Obs.
c. 1400. Plowman’s Tale, in Pol. Poems (Rolls), I. 330. To speake they shull not be so bold, For sompning to the consistorye.
c. 1400. Brut, Prol. 1. Dioclician anon lete make a sompnyng.
1490–1. [see SOMPNOUR].
