Definitions
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- noun (AS. Hist.) A meeting; -- used in combination, .
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- noun A public meeting.
- noun A judicial assembly.
- noun An
assembly ,council . - verb To
unite ,assemble .
Etymologies
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From Old English gemōt ("meeting, council, moot, encounter"), equivalent to ge- + mote
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Examples
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I will to the West, and gemote [123] alle mie knyghtes,
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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But Cnut was of nobler stuff than Æthelred, and his conquest of the realm was followed by the gathering of a new gemote at
Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860
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_mote or gemote_ -- a formal assembly for making laws
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920
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■ quodam conventu, 5c centum homines cum ace anum gemote. 3 an hunb manna mib
AnWulf commented on the word gemote
"I will to the West, and gemote alle mie knyghtes" — Thomas Chatterton, "The Rowley Poems", 1778
December 21, 2011