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My bad. To clarify, something that is 'summoned' is ordered. Nothing has been ordered by the committee in respect of his anticipated evidence.
by MistahKoala 9y ago
My bad. To clarify, something that is 'summoned' is ordered. Nothing has been ordered by the committee in respect of his anticipated evidence.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> To clarify, something that is 'summoned' is ordered. That is an overly narrow definition; “summoned” is broader than “ordered”. Google's excellent, OED-based search-integrated dictionary has, as the first definition of “summon”, “authoritatively or urgently call on (someone) to be present, especially as a defendant or witness in a law court”; you seem to want to limit the term to cases where the call is made authoritatively but not those where it is merely made urgently.