gemot
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of gemot
Old English gemōt, equivalent to ge- collective prefix + mōt meeting; moot
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The plotting was apparently localised in the south-western shires, as we infer from the fact that the gemot sat in an unusual place, Cirencester in the Severn country.
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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.
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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.
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Most of these are associated with a Christmas gemot, when Canute was celebrating the first anniversary of his rule as king of England.
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Florence of Worcester speaks of Edmund's "brothers" in narrating the discussions at the gemot of Christmas, 1016; but he may have thought of Queen Emma's children.
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