They said, "Put him and his brother off awhile, and send summoners to all the cities, Who shall bring to thee every cunning magician.
I shall not spare this Summoner here, though he be mad as a hare with it all; for Summoners have no jurisdiction over us Friars, you know, and never will have, all the days of their lives.
It seems a breach of civility and fair-play to modern minds, but the Summoners were in reality hated universally for their extortion or for their secret power among the people.
The Summoners found it to their interest to accept bribes not to report offences: therefore bad people who could afford to pay got off, whilst those who could not afford to pay were punished with rigour.
Many Summoners extorted bribes by threatening to say people had transgressed the law who had not; and so they got to be detested by the masses, and Chaucer's hideous picture gives the popular notion of a Summoner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "summoners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
