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Definition of Gemote
1. n. A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.
Definition of Gemote
1. Noun. A public meeting. ¹
2. Noun. A judicial assembly. ¹
3. Noun. An assembly, council. ¹
4. Verb. To unite, assemble. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gemote
1. gemot [n -S] - See also: gemot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gemote
Literary usage of Gemote
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the History of England by William Longman (1863)
"... -gemote are the assemblies called Parliaments by the writers after the ...
-gemote seems to have been more like our House of Lords than like our House ..."
2. Free Government in England and America: Containing the Great Charter, the by John Fulton (1864)
"... gemote—CONSTITUTION OF THE SAXON EMPIRE—DECADENCE OF THE SAXON SYSTEM.
THE liberties of England—and of these United States—as they exist to-day, ..."
3. History of the Fall of the Roman Empire: Comprising a View of the Invasion by Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi (1835)
"... or Wite- na-gemote, with which he always discussed the affairs of the nation.
What was the composition of this assembly, at which prelates, ..."
4. A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the by Alexander Mansfield Burrill (1851)
"... Sax. gemote, meeting.] In Saxon law. The meeting of a ward, or the inhabitants
of a ward ; a court held in, or for a ward. Spelman, voc. (remotum. ..."
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