What's the difference between demonology and summon?

Demonology


Definition:

  • (n.) A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition relations between psycho-pathological and mystical-demonological terminology are considered.
  • (2) Historians of psychiatry have propagated the view that the witch hunts of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe were primarily a persecution of the mentally ill and that demonological concepts of possession and witchcraft impeded psychiatric progress for centuries.
  • (3) In that case, the clause V meeting could regain a position in left Labour demonology that it has not had for more than 30 years.
  • (4) The resulting histories depict early European psychiatric thought as dominated by demonology.
  • (5) Histories of psychiatry concerning preindustrial Europe emphasize demonologic beliefs and physical mistreatment of the insane.
  • (6) It involves mostly young people, who do not have hysterical fits or psychotic episodes during spiritualist practices but who specially tend to take a strong interest in occultism, who very often consume drugs and have contacts with groups in which the interest for demonology plays an important part.
  • (7) In a sermon explicitly devoted to “demon possession” – which argues, among other things, that people are possessed by demons when they illogically deny the existence of God – Blackwood stops short of validating some of the more extreme versions of Christian demonology.
  • (8) Its foundation is Blond's three-way breakdown of modern British history, and the alleged scourges that have conspired to produce the "broken society" of modern Tory demonology.

Summon


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.
  • (v. t.) To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses.
  • (v. t.) To call upon to surrender, as a fort.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Senior executives at Network Rail are likely to be summoned to Westminster to explain the engineering overruns that caused chaos for Christmas travellers over the weekend.
  • (2) After five days watching birds illegally shot down and becoming embroiled in tense stand-offs with the police and hunters, Packham was summoned to a police station and interviewed for five hours.
  • (3) Had not Jaggers summoned me to see him on the day of my majority some years later, I might have wondered at the psychological implausibility of an old woman training a child to be a psychopath, but luckily I was so caught up by the possibility of my benefactor's name being revealed that the thought quite slipped my mind.
  • (4) Letterman was summoned to a grand jury hearing later yesterday at which he gave his side of the story.
  • (5) Chelsea must summon a response at Atlético Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Tuesday, trying to blot out the memory of the lead that was surrendered so wastefully here.
  • (6) RPC wrote back the next day saying Ashley was in the US and complained that the official had mentioned the prospect of a formal summons for Ashley: “Raising the spectre of a summons, in circumstances where our client has already volunteered the chairman as a witness to assist the committee and we are now liaising over availability, is, in our client’s view, inappropriate.” In the email, RPC said Hellawell was no longer available on 4 March but was now free on 25 March.
  • (7) Horrocks plans to summon the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to make his case: “The [1970] Conservative government came in with a manifesto commitment to kill the Open University, to kill Harold Wilson’s brainchild at birth.
  • (8) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
  • (9) The French president, François Hollande, summoned key ministers to a crisis meeting on Thursday afternoon, postponing a planned visit to France's Indian Ocean territories.
  • (10) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
  • (11) The Chelsea manager, José Mourinho, is anticipating a Football Association summons after Saturday’s loss to Southampton .
  • (12) The former Liverpool, Chelsea and Real Madrid coach made an immediate impact, interrupting a scheduled squad day off by summoning his players for an introductory meeting and training session on Friday afternoon.
  • (13) The shooting down of the plane comes the day after Turkey called for a UN security council meeting to discuss Russian actions in Syria, following the summoning of the Russian ambassador in Ankara to hear a protest over air attacks on Turkmen villages.
  • (14) So why is a CEO such as Marissa Mayer summoning Yahoo staff back into the office ?
  • (15) Around 400 attended court on Friday, most of them responding to a court summons for the first time, many of them anxious and angry about the process.
  • (16) In addition, BBC executives and trustees were summoned by parliamentary committees more than once a month.
  • (17) "Some of you may have heard we have a new judge this year," said Forsyth, summoning his finest brow-raise and hauling the audience at least temporarily on side by sheer force of showbiz will.
  • (18) Stanley stood up, summoned his secretary and said: "Call my bookie."
  • (19) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
  • (20) The Brexiters, by summoning up the patriotic genie, are implicitly calling on Britons to either become more parochial and less diverse – or else aspire to a second imperial age.

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