[f. SUMMON v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. SUMMON; the issue of a summons; † calling to arms; calling to surrender.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 15349. Made þey somonynge, of southe & northe, ilka kyng.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 31. Siche somonynge of prelatis is not groundid in cristis lif ne his apostelis ne reson. Ibid. (c. 1380), Sel. Wks., III. 166. By hor feyned sommenyng þei drawen hom fro hor laboure.
c. 1460. Oseney Reg., 168. Hugh of Hyngton And moolde his wiffe, the which nowe come By summenyng.
1582. Allen, Martyrdom Campion (1908), 86. This good fellow Havard was somewhat amased at this sodaine sommoning.
1595. in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), I. 228. let Presgrave make as many warrants as he can against that time for the summoning of the country.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1638), 66. They … had slaine such messengers as hee had sent vnto them for the summoning of the city.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xxxix. 325. Summonings, Comparitions, Appearances.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., II. xxi. The maid The unwelcome summoning obey’d.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., Hill of Venus, 1552. That might have been the bright archangel’s wand, who brought to Mary that fair summoning.
1875. Stubbs, Const. Hist., II. xv. § 190. 183. The hereditary summoning of a large proportion of great vassals was a middle course.
1891. Athenæum, 25 April, 529/2. In place of a crude creationism—or doctrine of the direct summoning into existence of each soul at earthly birth.
