Gemote

Pronunciation

• enPR: gÄ•'mōt

Alternative forms

• gemoot, gemot

Origin

From Old English gemōt ("meeting, council, moot, encounter"), equivalent to - + mote

Full definition of gemote

Noun

1. A public meeting.
2. A judicial assembly.
• 1895, Geoff Horton, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal SaintsEach division had a court subordinate to those that were superior, the highest in each shire being the shire-gemot, or folck-mote, ...
3. An assembly, council.
• 1876, John Richard Green, Stray Studies from England and Italyhis conquest of the realm was followed by the gathering of a new gemote at Oxford ...

Verb

1. To unite, assemble.
• 1778, Thomas Chatterton, The Rowley PoemsI will to the West, and gemote alle the knyghtes''