Any creature created through a spell, item or ability, with the exception of extra-planar beings Extra-planar creatures (demons, devas and planetars) are gated rather than summoned
If you summon someone, you order them to come to you. Howe summoned a doctor and hurried over Suddenly we were summoned to the interview room He has been summoned to appear in court on charges of incitement to law-breaking
If you summon a quality, you make a great effort to have it. For example, if you summon the courage or strength to do something, you make a great effort to be brave or strong, so that you will be able to do it. It took her a full month to summon the courage to tell her mother. Summon up means the same as summon. Painfully shy, he finally summoned up courage to ask her to a game
[ 's&-m&n ] (transitive verb.) 13th century. Middle English somonen, from Old French somondre, from Vulgar Latin summonere, alteration of Latin summonEre to remind secretly, from sub- secretly + monEre to warn; more at SUB-, MIND.