summoner

Etymology

summon + -er

noun

  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. 2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, page 119

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