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noun 
  1. (historic) The assembly of the Anglo-Saxon national council.
  • 1851: To this study was necessarily added that of the ecclesiastical canons; and the knowledge of each must have given the clergy a great superiority, both as legislators in the , and as magistrates in the different courts, at which it was their duty to attend. " John Lingard, The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church (J Murphy, p.102)
    1. Any assembly, parliament or discursive gathering.
Etymology: Old English witena gemot, witena ÄemÅt.


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