▪ I. † ˈsummond, n. Sc. and north. Obs.
Also 5 somond, summound.
[f. next.]
= summons.
| 14.. Customs of Malton in Surtees Misc. (1890) 58 Noo othyr Balyffe schal make no tachement nor somond. c 1480 Henryson Mor. Fab., Sheep & Dog iv, This summond is maid before witnes anew. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xiii. 29 Sum castis summondis, and sum exceptis. c 1680 Dallas Stiles (1688) 192 The Summond of Adjudication. |
▪ II. † ˈsummond, v. Sc. and north. Obs.
Also 4 somend, sumund, 4–5 somond(e, 6 sumond, sowmmond.
[a. AF., OF. somondre, sumundre, semondre: see summon v.]
To summon. Hence ˈsummonding vbl. n.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 5324 Þe king þan did his lettres writte To somond al. a 1340 Hampole Psalter vii. 12 He somondis þaim till penaunce. Ibid. cxlviii. 12 Here sumundis he men and women..to loue þe name of oure lord. 1425 Munim. de Melros (Bann. Cl.) 544 We gert somond..Johne..abbot of Melrosse..on þe ta part and..Johne hag of bemersyde on þe thoþer part. a 1450 Ratis Raving iii. 383 Bere þow wytnes but somondynge, Þow may be set fra wytnesinge. c 1575 Balfour Practicks (1754) 303 Summounding is ane declaratioun of ane certane lauchful day and place, maid befoir sufficient witnessis, to ane partie, to compeir in judgment. Ibid. 305 To summound ony persounis to pas upon ony assise or inqueist. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 67 Thair come ane thunderand woyce out of heawin cryand and sowmmondand him to the extreme iudgement of god. 1639 Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. IV, Wks. (1711) 74 A proclamation..summonding a great many burgesses..to appear..before the tribunal of one Plot-Cock. c 1680 Dallas Stiles (1688) 185 That ye lawfully summond, warn and charge the forenamed persons. 1711 in Nairne Peerage Evidence (1874) 143 [To] call and convein parties and witnesses summond inquests and asysses. |