SUMMONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does summoning mean? 

• SUMMONING (noun)
  The noun SUMMONING has 1 sense:

1. calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations

  Familiarity information: SUMMONING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUMMONING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

evocation; summoning

Hypernyms ("summoning" is a kind of...):

conjuration; conjuring; conjury; invocation (calling up a spirit or devil)

Holonyms ("summoning" is a part of...):

dispossession; exorcism (freeing from evil spirits)

Derivation:

summon (ask to come)

 Context examples 

Summoning Mary, I soon had the room in more cheerful order: I prepared him, likewise, a comfortable repast.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

While Johansen was summoning the watch below, a couple of sailors, under the captain’s direction, laid the canvas-swathed corpse upon a hatch-cover.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Summoning courage, however, and reflecting that it was a public dwelling, in which he had as much right as any other man, he pushed it open and stepped into the common room.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thereupon, I arranged my clothes as best I could, and summoning a passing hansom, drove to an hotel in Portland Street, the name of which I chanced to remember.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I had thought it to be the blind man's trumpet, so to speak, summoning his crew to the assault, but I now found that it was a signal from the hillside towards the hamlet, and from its effect upon the buccaneers, a signal to warn them of approaching danger.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)