witenagemote

English

Etymology

From Old English, meaning "an assembly of the wise".

Noun

witenagemote (plural witenagemotes)

  1. (historical) A meeting of wise men; the national council or legislature of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.

References
  • witenagemote in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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