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; moot

Example Sentences

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

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

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 Larson, Laurence Marcellus

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

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

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 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