gemot

American  

[guh-moht] / gəˈmoʊt /

Or gemote

noun

1. (in Anglo-Saxon England) a legislative or judicial assembly.

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gemot British  

/ ɡɪˈməʊt /

noun

1. (in Anglo-Saxon England) a legal or administrative assembly of a community, such as a shire or hundred

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Etymology

Origin of gemot

Old English gemōt, equivalent to ge- collective prefix + mōt meeting; see moot

Example Sentences

Saxon, witan, to know, and gemot, a meeting, a council.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer

During the year 998 a great "gemot" was held at London.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

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 Larson, Laurence Marcellus

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 Allen, Grant

The gemot met and decreed the restoration of the earl and the outlawry of many Normans.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir