gemote

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A form of gemot — A (legislative or judicial) assembly in Anglo-Saxon England.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

noungemote (plural gemotes)

plural gemotes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of gemot.

    But Cnut was of nobler stuff than Æthelred, and his conquest of the realm was followed by the gathering of a new gemote at Oxford to resume the work of reconciliation […]

    1876, John Richard Green, Stray Studies from England and Italy
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    He expelled the Britons, and fixed the Tamar as their limit Then returning to Exeter, he held therein a gemote, at which certain laws still in existence were promulgated, […]

    1879, A handbook for travellers in Devonshire, 9th edition, John Murray, page 26

    Dean Pound somewhere quoting from Freeman, the English historian, the most noted of the Anglo-Saxon myth-makers, cites the examiner in law who insisted that William the Conqueror introduced the feudal system at the gemote at Salisbury in 1086, […]

    1918, Michigan Law Review, volume 16, page 325
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