Noun
summoner (plural summoners)
- One who summons or evokes, particularly in legal contexts.
- (historical) An apparitor; An officer of an ecclesiastical court whose job it was to deliver a summons to an offending member of the diocese.
- A small bell for summoning an employee to provide service.
2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, →ISBN, page 119: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.
Translations
one who summons or evokes