compear

‘I sist you to compear before the Great White Throne, and I warn you the summons shall be bloody and sudden.’

Lay Morals 2005

That judicious senate, very sagely perpending the reasons of his perplexity, sent him word to summon her personally to compear before him a precise hundred years thereafter, to answer to some interrogatories touching certain points which were not contained in the verbal defence.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

That judicious senate, very sagely perpending the reasons of his perplexity, sent him word to summon her personally to compear before him a precise hundred years thereafter, to answer to some interrogatories touching certain points which were not contained in the verbal defence.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Whareat sche more heighlie commoved, did summound agane all the preachearis to compear at Striveling, the tent day of Maij, the year of God 1559.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

It was passed under the Great Seal on the 10th of June 1546, and it cited them to compear before the Parliament on the 30th of July, within the City of Edinburgh.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

And can any body tell how ye will compear before this throne that were never cleansed with the blood of Jesus?

The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. John Welch

'I sist you to compear before the Great White Throne, and

Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Angus, his kin and friends, they concluded all and thought it best, that he should be summoned to underly the law; if he fand not caution, nor yet compear himself, that he should be put to the horn, with all his kin and friends, so many as were contained in the letters.

The Lady of the Lake 1810

This was, without question, what the managers wanted, and so his trouble began: for, on the 30th of July following, "the lords of council order letters to be directed, to charge William Gordon of Earlstoun to compear before them -- to answer for his seditious and factious carriage:" that was, his refusing to comply with prelacy, and hear the curates, and for his favouring and hearing the outed ministers.

Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies John Howie 1764

In the year 1584, when an act of parliament was made that all ministers, masters of colleges, &c. should within forty-eight hours, compear and subscribe the act of parliament, concerning the king's power over all estates spiritual and temporal, and submit themselves to the bishops, &c.

Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies John Howie 1764