summon
to call forth or order to appear
Root
- mon: warn, remind, advise
Other words with the mon root
- admonish: to warn or correct firmly
- admonition: a warning or cautionary rebuke
- monitor: watcher or warner
- monitory: giving warning or admonition
- monument: structure that preserves memory
- premonition: a warning feeling before something happens
- premonitory: giving advance warning
Summon keeps a calling/reminding force: someone is called to show up.
The committee summoned the witness before publishing its report.