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View definitions for subpoena

subpoena

noun as in writ

Strong match

verb as in issue a writ

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Example Sentences

From thence he had been brought to attend before the Commission in obedience to a subpœna issued by the Court.

The third privilege of envoys in reference to their exterritoriality is exemption from subpœna as witnesses.

Ryder was not fond of company, he avoided strangers and lived in continual apprehension of the subpœna server.

They had given their message truly before he had been overtaken at Coburg with the subpœna.

MacRae admitted that "a subpœna may issue against him as well as against any other man."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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