Summoner

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who summons or evokes, particularly in legal contexts.
  2. 2
    An apparitor; an officer of an ecclesiastical court whose job it was to deliver a summons to an offending member of the diocese. historical
  3. 3
    A small bell for summoning an employee to provide service.

    "And as they change, they set into bright relief not only outmoded honorifics and hunting horns, but silver summoners and mother-of-pearl opera glasses and all manner of carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness."

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"And as they change, they set into bright relief not only outmoded honorifics and hunting horns, but silver summoners and mother-of-pearl opera glasses and all manner of carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness."

Etymology

From summon + -er.

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