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The universe's way of saying your presence is mandatory, not optional.
means An official order demanding that you appear somewhere — usually a court — whether you like it or not.
from From Old French 'semondre,' meaning to summon or urge, which traces back to Latin 'summonere' — 'sub' (secretly, under) plus 'monere' (to warn). So at its root, a summons is literally a 'secret warning' — the legal sense sharpened it into an official, unignorable call to appear.
- legal weight
- ignoring one can get you arrested
- not optional
- unlike invitations, these have teeth
- origin
- from latin submonere, to warn secretly
- jury duty
- the most hated kind of summons