Assert and Summon

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

verb

• Call in an official matter, such as to attend court.
  • synonyms: summons, cite
• Ask to come.
  • usage: "summon a lawyer"
• Gather or bring together.
  • usage: "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage"
  • synonyms: muster, rally, come up, muster up
• Make ready for action or use.
  • usage: "marshal resources"
  • synonyms: mobilize, mobilise, marshal

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