somner

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somner (plural somners)

  1. (obsolete) A summoner; especially, one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.
    • 1608, Thomas Middleton, A Trick to Catch the Old One, act 2, scene 1; republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton[1], volume 2, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, page 29:
      Life, they may do any thing there, man, and fear neither beadle nor somner

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