0 past simple and past participle of subpoena
1 to order someone to go to a law court to answer questions:
A friend of the victim was subpoenaed as a witness by lawyers representing the accused.
[ + to infinitive ] They were subpoenaed to testify before the judge.
Through this we maintain our ability to understand human processes and to keep them rational, as opposed to magical and subpoenaed by hierarchy.
She was then subpoenaed by the husband, the plaintiff in the divorce suit that followed.
In court proceedings, very often, a person subpoenaed to give evidence is heavily embarrassed.
In those proceedings the person accused of discrimination will have to give evidence if he is subpoenaed.
Unfortunately, he has been subpoenaed to appear as a witness in court.
The patient had been attending the clinic, and the pathologist who had made the blood tests in the case was cited and subpoenaed.
If somebody is subpoenaed, that is a different matter: they are subpoenaed.
The policeman if he is subpoenaed has to give evidence, and may have conduct money.
