witenagemot

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witenagemot an Anglo-Saxon national council or parliament. The name is Old English, and comes from witena, genitive plural of wita ‘wise man’ + gemōt ‘meeting’. The name witan is also used.

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Witenagemot

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Witenagemot

an assembly or council of the Witan, the Anglo-Saxon Council to the king; a modern assembly, e.g., the first select Witenagemot of the Sciences of the World, 1899; the Witenagemot at Cambridge, 1833.

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