gemot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gemot
Old English gemōt, equivalent to ge- collective prefix + mōt meeting; see moot
Example Sentences
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Some time during the first half of the year, a gemot was summoned to meet at Oxford, near the border of the Danelaw.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson
The lords who attended this gemot were probably the local leaders south of the Thames; that the chiefs of the Danelaw were in attendance is very unlikely.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson
Saxon, witan, to know, and gemot, a meeting, a council.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
During the year 998 a great "gemot" was held at London.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
But the importance of the simple freeman had now quite died out, and the gemot was rather a meeting of the earls, bishops, abbots, and wealthy landholders, than a real assembly of the people.
From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen
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