Witenagemot

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈwɪtÉ™nəɡɪˌməʊt/

Origin

Old English witena ġemōt.

Full definition of witenagemot

Noun

1. Any assembly, parliament or discursive gathering.
2. (history) The assembly of the Anglo-Saxon national council.
• 1851, John Lingard, The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, 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 witenagemot, and as magistrates in the different courts, at which it was their duty to attend.