gemot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gemot
Old English gemōt, equivalent to ge- collective prefix + mōt meeting; see moot
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Saxon, witan, to know, and gemot, a meeting, a council.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
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 Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson
The word gemot or moot was used for any kind of formal meeting.
From Early European History by Hutton Webster
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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