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Summonitio(u)n, Somonicioune, n. [Late ME and e.m.E. somonycioun (c1450), sommonicion (1502), -ycon (1531), summonition (1593), med. L. summonition-, f. summonēre.] a. A summons to appear in court. = Summondis n. 2. b. ? A challenge (by a herald). c. A writ summoning representatives to parliament. Cf. Summondis n. 1.a. 14.. Quon. Attach. c. 57.
He has power in speciale to mak somonicioune till his tennandis to schaw thar haldyn c1575 Balfour Pract. 305.
Ane persoun beand summoundit be ane uther in ony cause civil or criminal, gif he, the time of the making of the said summonitioun [etc.] 1660 Rothesay B. Rec. 53.
Johne Roy Campbell officer came to him without … formar premonitioun or summonitiounb. a1586 Lindsay MS 10b.
To send thame herraldis … the ane to the vther & do thair messages and summonitionisc. 1599 Lennox Mun. 340.
To the effect that all thingis may be rychtlie done specialie all summonitionis lauchfull, the dittayis in perfect forme [etc.] 1678 Lauder Observes 264.
It was ever understood, that all summonitions to parliaments, … used ever to run on forty dayes citation and præmonition