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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An Anglo-Saxon advisory council to the king, composed of about 100 nobles, prelates, and other officials, convened at intervals to discuss administrative and judicial affairs.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In Anglo-Saxon history, the great national council or parliament, consisting of the king with his dependents and friends and sometimes the members of his family, the ealdormen, the bishops, and other ecclesiastics. This council, which met frequently, constituted the highest court of judicature in the kingdom. It was summoned by the king in any political emergency, and its concurrence was necessary in many important measures, such as the deciding of war, the levying of extraordinary taxes, grants of land in certain cases, election and (in many instances) deposition of kings.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any assembly, parliament or discursive gathering.
  2. n. history The assembly of the Anglo-Saxon national council.

Etymologies

  1. Old English witena ġemōt. (Wiktionary)
  2. Old English witena gemōt, meeting of councilors : witena, genitive pl. of wita, councilor; see weid- in Indo-European roots + gemōt, meeting (ge-, collective pref.; see kom in Indo-European roots + mōt, meeting). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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