summoning
Calling something forth
Summoning is the act of calling forth or ordering someone to appear.
A court summons witnesses, a king summons subjects, a wizard summons spirits.
The word carries authority—you summon what must obey: The president is summoning his advisors.
To summon courage or strength is to gather it deliberately: She summoned the nerve to speak up.
Performing magical incantations
- conjuringPerforming magical illusions
- incantationSpoken magical formula
- evocationCalling forth to mind
- necromancyCommunicating with the deceased
sorcery · enchantment · wizardry · thaumaturgy · witchcraft · hex · charm · ward
Spirit communication ritual
- pentagramFive-pointed mystical star
- sigilMagical or heraldic symbol
- circleCurved closed shape
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
candles · altar · offering · sacrifice · invocation · mediumship · spiritism · occultism
Strongly felt purpose
- signalingConveying information nonverbally
- hailingCalling to attract attention
- gesturingMoving limbs expressively
- biddingOffering prices or obeying
invoking · requesting · entreating · petitioning · appeal · invitation · supplication · urging
Writ requiring testimony
- writCourt-issued directive
- citationMention of a source
- noticeBecome aware of
- court orderBinding judicial directive
appearance · jury duty · testimony · witness · hearing · deposition · defendant · plaintiff
Formally gathering together
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- musteringGathering or summoning
- rallyingAssembling for unified action
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
council · quorum · delegates · session · convocation · mobilization · congregation · assembly
spellcasting
Performing magical incantations
- conjuringPerforming magical illusions
- incantationSpoken magical formula
- evocationCalling forth to mind
necromancy · sorcery · enchantment · wizardry · thaumaturgy · witchcraft · hex · charm · ward · mana
séance
Spirit communication ritual
chanting · candles · altar · offering · sacrifice · invocation · mediumship · spiritism · occultism · coven
calling
Strongly felt purpose
- signalingConveying information nonverbally
- hailingCalling to attract attention
- gesturingMoving limbs expressively
bidding · invoking · requesting · entreating · petitioning · appeal · invitation · supplication · urging · adjuration
subpoena
Writ requiring testimony
court order · appearance · jury duty · testimony · witness · hearing · deposition · defendant · plaintiff · jurisdiction
convening
Formally gathering together
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- musteringGathering or summoning
- rallyingAssembling for unified action
convention · council · quorum · delegates · session · convocation · mobilization · congregation · assembly
- seancesseance, medium, mediums, channeling, planchette
- fantasywizard, witch, magic, dragon, elf
- magicwizard, wand, sorcerer, witchcraft, mage
- fantasy magicmagic wand, crystal ball, flying broom, love potion, invisibility cloak
- witchcraftwitch, spell, spellwork, witches, spells
- magical effectsinvisibility, teleportation, levitation, enchantment, hex
summoningdismissing
Removing from position
sending away · banishing · exorcising · expelling · casting out
summoningdispersing
Spreading widely apart
scattering · disbanding · dismissing · dissipating · dissolving
summoningsuppressing
Forcibly restraining or inhibiting
repressing · stifling · quashing · squelching · subduing
- summoning upCalling into presence
- demon summoningCalling forth evil spirits
- summoning circleRitual pattern for invoking spirits
- spirit summoningCalling forth disembodied entities