Obs. Also 5 somac(i)on. [a. OF. som(m)acion, f. sommer to summon.] Summons.
1471. Caxton, Recuyell (Sommer), 222. Perseus … sente danus vnto the kynge prycus to somene hym that he shold yelde the royame vnto kynge Acrisius. Danus wente to Arges. And accomplisshed the somacion. Ibid. (c. 1477), Jason, 57 b. Whan Iason vnderstode the somacon that the two damoiselles made he was sore abasshid.
1864. D. G. Mitchell, Sev. Stor., 7. The admiring spirit with which … I yielded my pence to his impetuous summation.
