summoner

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summoner

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From summon + -er.

noun summoners

  1. One who summons or evokes, particularly in legal contexts.
  2. historical An apparitor; an officer of an ecclesiastical court whose job it was to deliver a summons to an offending member of the diocese.
  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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noun one who summons or evokes

Portuguêsevocador, invocador

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@misc{summoner_2026,
  title = {summoner},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/summoner},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}